My Story
Q: What trauma did you survive? A: There are so many.... But the one affecting me the most, My daughter was legally stolen from me by my father. Q: How old were you? A: 22 Q: How long has it been? A: Over twenty years Q: How did you react? A: Badly, I broke emotionally, mentally. I wanted to die. Q: How did you survive? A: In some ways, I didn't. Part of me died when the fight was over. I fought for five years and ultimately failed. Initally the fight kept be alive. Once the fight was over, I had something in my life worth fighting for. Fighting against the parts of me that wanted to die. Q: What helped you survive? A: By the time the fight was over, I had another daughter. She needed me and had only me. The fight caused me to lose everyone else in my life. I had only her and she had only me. I needed to try for her. Q: How has it changed you? A: For a long time it changed me in a negative way. Paranoid, schizophrenic, self esteem was in the toilet, didn&