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My Experience with Psychotic Depression (Micah)

I am not sure where to start. There is so little I remember. I’m not even certain of my exact diagnosis now. Is it psychotic depression or schizoaffective disorder? Or something else? It doesn’t really matter.

Be As

Trigger warning for graphic description of bullying

Adrian noticed him looking and turned his face away his cheeks red. “I always get picked on.” He said quietly. “About being new, about my scar, about being ugly and anti-social.” There was a touch of bitterness in his voice and he looked away again, voice dropping to a whisper. “and about being ….gay…” For some reason, Adrian knew he could trust the strange boy with this fact.

Question the “Anti-Authoritarian” Bully

Triggers: r-word mention, suicide, trauma, abuse, bullying

Anti-authoritarian spaces like to pride themselves of being anti-oppression. But, so many of us never talk about what that means internally. At least not enough. How often will some radical folks rush to the streets to defend a cause or jump to their computers to write about it, then become suddenly inactive when they see an internal conflict? They call-out someone new who makes the wrong comment about [insert oppression here], but when that same person is being bullied by one of their own- silence.

My Experience with Depression (Faye)

I’ve been struggling with depression for as long as I can remember – I was abused by a family member as a child and that left me emotionally scarred.  When my parents divorced, it only got worse until said family member moved away.  Things just seemed to pile on and on and when I was 13 I began the struggle with self harm, cutting and scratching myself.