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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&