Break the Chain wants to empower Survivors.
Here is a place we can talk and listen to each other.
Putting words together, by reading someone else's words or writing your own can help in so many different ways. For me, it was the only thing calming me down at the peak of a panic attack in the middle of the night.
It provides words to qualify what "THAT" was: by reading other's story and finding your echo in it, you understand what are those weirds memories, nightmares and feeling you have in your head and in your core.
It also helps to anchor it in reality, to say: "Yes, it happened".
Accepting those three words is painful and disturbing enough, let's not be alone.
Now that we know something happened, let's share our tricks to deal with it: what do you do to make you feel better? To make yourself feel in control, safe? What do you do when panic strikes? How do you get up in the morning when ghosts of the past are dragging you down? How do you talk about it to your friends and partners? How do you choose a therapist? How does that feel? How do you deal with your family, even your abuser, now? Does that have an impact on your professional life?
All those questions in our head!
So let's talk!
Here is a place to write, if you are willing to, about your experience of abuse and how you cope with it.
Rules:
1. We believe you.
2. You can change names and places if you feel more comfortable that way (or no name at all ! ).
3. If you feel overwhelmed, you can stop and start again at any time.
4. Don't be embarrassed, this is not a Pulitzer Prize kind of thing.
5. Send us a private message (Contact) with your story.
Thanks for your support!