Recent content by Sparkle

I feel the same,would love to campaign but not really sure how to go about it. I feel, from what I've read that child abuse is endemic but people don't know what to look for. Everyone still envisages abusers as the man in the dirty mac or the weirdo hanging around outside school, they don't seem...

Hello again, have been talking with my daughter. She says that if your daughter is very angry she shouldn't be having EMDR, she needs to be taught lots of coping strategies before she has to cope with more stress. Beth, my daughter, says that EMDR is like opening Pandoras box and that you need...

I feel so bad for both you and her. She must be going through hell. The guilt I feel about my daughter is terrible, I blame myself for not seeing it, and I am scared that it will effect her for the rest of her life. When she asks me what she has to live for when she is suicidal, I find it...

Just been reading other posts on this thread. My daughter, although she knows it's irrational and unfair, blames me for not rescuing her from what happened to her. She also feels that I am the only one who she can truly get angry with because she knows that I love her and will never leave her...

My daughter accesses it herself. When she is very ill she needs to be left to deal with it herself to an extent. I stay nearby, but she won't talk or be touched. When that phase improves, it is easier to prompt her to do breathing or distraction. It's so difficult but your daughter needs to...

Hello, sorry, only just read your reply. Don't forget to involve your local mp they are obliged to help and it just adds a little more pressure to whoever you are complaining to. Ask for family therapy, we never got it,but there's no harm in asking. Would your solicitor not work pro bono ? As...

My daughter also spends a lot of time looking after others, I think that it is her way of deflecting her thoughts. She has flash backs where she passes out, terrible nightmares where she screams and wets herself, disassociates, hears her father's voice etc. But she's also really good at...

That was a lovely message, thanks. Your wife is lucky to have someone so supportive by her side. There are no local survivors group, we have looked into it.My husband and I have offered to pay for private therapy, but my daughter won't accept it as she knows we don't have much money and she...

Thank you for that. My daughter disclosed her abuse at 14 after a suicide attempt where she ended up in a child and adolescents mental health unit. Since then she has attempted suicide twice more, last time having to be resuscitated. She has seen over 12 different therapists due to them leaving...

My daughter is in the process of pressing charges against her father for years of sexual abuse (we had split up and I had no idea what was happening ) and I have to say that the whole process has been terrible so far. I don't want to discourage anyone from reporting abuse and I'm sure it varies...