Survivor Stories 1..

Many survivors feel "invisible" and voiceless....

If you are a survivor and would like to have your experiences (of the services that were supposed to help you) published here then contact me at traumablogger@hotmail.com

Coping with the mental health sevice can be an incredibly damaging experience.  Yet many people feel forced to 'bite their tongue' and supress very legitimate and appropriate anger about the treatment they have received.  Many fear they would be penalised in their notes as diplaying "aggression" or "incompliance".  This is in itself very invalidating and further entrenches the burying of healthy emotional responses.  This 'silencing' through stigma means full mental health professional acountability is very hard to achieve. 

Claire (uk) - Exaggerating? 

Being raped and beaten does tend to make a person "hystrionic"!

"Contemptuous of local services"

Is that now a symptom of an illness? Or a rational healthy response?

Mike (usa) -Musical Response

"just get over it"

John (uk)- The World of Silence and the Silence you Shame

CMHT         Questionable Anger?