Long suspected throughout many CSA Victimsâ childhoods, in 2018 Scientific Alert published the following article on the proven-identified link: âScientists Have Found a Strong Link Between a Terrible Childhood And Being Intensely Creativeâ. Opening with âexposure to abuse, neglect or a dysfunctional familyâ throughout a victimâs childhood, expands to join together how these impacts have a clear linkage. Complemented through Counselling and verifying some Victimsâ long-held suspicions, this Article gives another (Scientific/Journalistic) POV â which may also satisfy those of us who often felt disbelieved, palmed-away or ignored. We knew what we were/had survived; we just didnât know how to word, or should I say âScientifically categoriseâ what we âenduredâ! ⊠WTF ?!!!⊠we were only young, innocent kids at their time: the perfect hunting ground, for these Criminal-Pedophilic-Dirty-(typically)-Senior/Old-(WO)-Men.
I apologise for going off on an emotional-outburst, yet this is a toned-down form of many of the conversations had with Victims, Parents and Relations; Thankfully, their mutual aim is to protect this triggering news from younger Siblings; As horrifying as this possibility is to consider, perhaps this is (another) layer of defence which the Criminal-Pedophilic-Dirty-(typically)-Senior/Old-(WO)-Men know of + exploit. Having (naturally?) always having entered the Arts, this Article gives many reasons and answers questions, yet more interests may be shown. Perhaps this is an underlying advantage of Creativity, yet CSA Survivours Iâve spent any time with each have their own âchecklistsâ to work through. At this point, Iâll aim to re-publish the complete Article ASAP, in addition to again providing the Private + Confidential Counsellors. Of great interest, is the amount of focus I am working through with my Counsellor on the âminor and inconsiderateâ events, which are actually mounting up to explain the devastating impact which may result.
Hopes are that each of you, your loved ones and each of our ecosystems copes alright throughout this COVID19 Pandemic.
Although the MeetUp Group âBrisbane Abuse Survivours Networkâ, now seems to have closed – weâre experiencing larger + wider impacts with this RCbbc Blog. The growth, interaction + time required by these RCbbc Blog pages continue to outweigh any more time + costs taken by running a MeetUp Group as well.
Weâve now achieved at least 1,124 Subscribers, the ongoing impact + support is filling in a much-needed gap. Particularly direct families continue to be a cause of many surviving-victims not coming forth, Iâm now in a position that Iâve recently had a 3rd body start guiding one of my parents through my CSA mess. Itâs not a solution, yet it does feel relieving to have an unresolved misunderstanding taken off my shoulders. Please seek help, through a Counsellor!
Secrecy has-does-will have a power over our lives. It always will, yet we each have that same control over it. This is where Predators/Abusers/Facilitators have taken advantage of their assumed targets, typically manipulating their unawareness of their own rights (maturity, trust + secrecy). âThe Power of Secretsâ in PsychologyToday begins by stating that Secrets can divide people. âThey deter relationships. And they freeze development on individuals.â
The Secret life of Families, Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D.
Power of Secrets contains titles of: HOW SECRETS SABOTAGE, SHATTERING THE TRIANGLE, âDON’T TELL ANYONE OUR BUSINESSâ, BREAKING FAMILY RULES, ROOM FOR REHEARSAL, FROZEN FAMILIES + RESPECTING TRANSITION TIMES. So enthralling are these, Iâll try to repost the entire page ASAP.
From the book The Secret Life of Families by Evan IrabetBlack, Ph.D. Copyright 1998 by Evan Imber-Black. Reprinted by permission of Bantam Books, New York, New York. All rights reserved. AmazonSpringerkobo
PHOTO (COLOR): Secrets are kept or opened for many reasons, from self-serving abuses of power to the protection of others. (Unavailable, yet text provided)
PHOTOS (COLOR): Family secrets are destructive and all families have some secrets from the outside world. Resist the temptation to handle them at transition times such as weddings, graduations, and new beginnings. (Unavailable, yet text provided)
Itâs the disorder that robs people of their ability to feel whole.
When it comes to the disorder that can splinter people into discrete and fractious personalities, itâs important to note that this complex disorder is not uncommon.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is often misdiagnosed. For the sufferer, the experience can be deeply confusing, with a distorted sense of self and long periods of time lost to dissociation.
Caused by childhood abuse, incest and neglect, the disorder often develops as a coping mechanism. It allows young kids to compartmentalize abuse so they can survive when caregivers or family members make them feel unsafe.
DID is described as a complex form of post-traumatic stress and dissociation, which causes a discontinuity in oneâs self of self.
Professor Warwick Middleton is a leader in research and treatment on the disorder and has been working in the field for decades. Speaking to News.com.au, he recalls first writing a paper on the condition in 1991.
DID can be categorized as a developmental disorder, where a personâs personality fails to integrate as they develop.
Itâs defined as an âidentity disruptionâ and you may know it as âmultiple personality disorder.â In some cultures, it may be identified as spiritual or demonic possession.
How do you identify dissociative identity disorder?
They have symptoms that you might have seen depicted in movies like âSybilâ or TV shows like âThe United States of Tara.â
Sufferers of the disorder have a complex system of dissociation, which Middleton describes as âsplitting off at different times into different identity states.â
âThe individual might experience this as internal or external voices, which may argue and which may be associated with particular behaviors. Alternative handwritings. A whole spectrum of things,â he said.
What Middleton describes is a form of dissociation where the sufferer splits off into what appears to be a completely different âpersonalities.â Sufferers usually have at least two distinct personalities at some point in their life, some may have many more.
Middleton says that the majority of sufferers also fulfill criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression and somatization, while many of them have eating disorders and social phobias.
âTypically they present in their thirties, having bounced around the system for quite a while,â he said. âBecause they hear voices ⊠theyâre given antipsychotics. From our research, about 20 percent of them are diagnosed with bipolar disorder.â
âIf you look a bit closer they donât have bipolar. That was just someone identifying them switching between different personality states.â
Losing large periods of your life
People who suffer from DID often have trouble remembering things.
In the autobiographical memory of their life, there are gaps where they have no recollection of what happened or what they did â and not in a regularly reported way, like when you drive home and arrive at your door with little recall of your journey.
Itâs about losing big parts of your life to your other âpersonalitiesâ who take over, commandeering your consciousness. While it might sound like the stuff of movies, the disorder is very real.
From Middletonâs research, he suggests it occurs in about 1.1 percent of the adult population. He describes this as being a ârelatively commonâ condition.
What are people with DID like?
â(People with DID) range in a spectrum â (there) are people who sort of live on the fringes of existence who are chronically mentally ill, bouncing around services to people who are very high achieving, who may work in mental health services themselves.â
Sufferers often report weeks or months of their life passing by them where they have no memory and feel no agency over what transpired in that period.â
In the early nineties, the disorder was not often diagnosed and hardly at all identified by mental health professionals. These days it is much more commonly diagnosed.
Treatment for the disorder
Middleton says his interest in the disorder developed because there was âvery little clinical awarenessâ and it wasnât a diagnosis routinely made.
The other problem was that the issue of family assault and âincestâ wasnât properly acknowledged within Australia, where he is based, at the time.
âWe now know that incest is, unfortunately, very common,â Middleton said.
âBasically in every country in the world where systematic research is done into childhood trauma and the presence of dissociative disorders we get very similar patterns.â
He said with standard treatment like cognitive behavioral therapy, the outcomes are very poor for sufferers of this disorder.
Treatment options with good outcomes include phase-orientated treatment.
Middleton was the first person, along with his colleague Dr. Jeremy Butts to publish research linking childhood trauma with the presence of DID. This paper was published over 20 years ago in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
Heâs been a long-term director of the Society for Trauma and Dissociation.
Their findings showed that across the world, almost all sufferers of DID had, during childhood, suffered from some form of abuse, be it physical, sexual or neglect.
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As some of the overlapping matters of school-swapping seems to run parallel-together with church-swapping, the (hidden) realities of Private/Elite Schools is becoming so common. Secrecy was an ingrained method still practised by many within these ecosystems, continuing to place Institutional trust, over that of those who’ve withdrawn from the system. These ‘outcasts‘ actually need extra care, as family & social withdrawals can have a drastic effect.