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Forgot to mention also: the most common age at which children are sexually abused is FOUR (sick, I know), which my granddaughter was.

Sorry it's once again taken me so long to respond and thanks for your responses. I've now spoken with three professionals, who all advise me to take these incidents seriously. It occurs to me that you don't know me, how much I already do question myself (even when I shouldn't), and as the...

wow, I feel less crazy reading these posts because they're familiar to me, I'm not the only one. The Shadow: love your description. One thing occurs to me in talking about dissociative disorders: how psychology at some point divorced most mental illnesses from the TRAUMA it used to be...

Another very difficult thing? I've worked SO hard on my abuse issues and trying to break the intergenerational cycle with my kids, and even had one of my kids' therapists tell me I'd broken it. But the last two guys my daughter's had a serious relationship with have similarities to her sociopath...

Maybe the hardest thing for me is knowing N will feel betrayed once I speak about incident, may not trust me again?

I was babysitting N and putting her to bed. (Relevant: a couple hours earlier, one of P's sons was talking about "rock monsters.") N asked me to check under her bed for monsters. I obliged and told her monsters aren't real. She objected vehemently that "ROCK monsters are real." From all the time...

I haven't even been back to site in all this time for numerous reasons, will now try to answer everyone in one post. I do appreciate all of you taking the time to reply, thanks. So much is hard to describe and subjective, i know, but the main thing for me was that I had I NEVER seen her...

Just realized header wrong: I don't have a possible granddaughter; the abuse is possible. sigh.

My granddaughter will turn five in a few days and within about the past year, I've had two incidents that (to me at least) highly suggest sexual abuse. Since I'm a survivor myself, I distrust myself on these issues--probably as I did growing up, with minimization and denial, dissociation?--and I...

My father was a Lutheran minister when I was very young, then became a probation and parole officer (church and state). He was also an aggressive sociopath, abusive on every level. Sounds like you may be talking more about "religious abuse," which is a real thing? My own personal experience...

I've always resided in the US and I've never even KNOWN people who live in such luxury as they always depict on US television. (Oh wait, maybe one.)

Sorry, just finally made my way back here. I'm in Minneapolis but grew up in Madison, WI and lived in various other areas on country over the years, too. Never TX, though. Also just realized that my pic got cropped, turned out funny... better re-do.

Haven't thoroughly read the thread yet but recognize many of the issues. One thing that's frequently neglected in these conversations, I find, is that the history of trauma--and the constant morphing of categories and labels relating to it--has so very much to do with CULTURE and its own...

Hi, just stumbled onto this site, in Mini-Ap area feeling like a trauma freak? Not yet sure what I'm looking for but I'll be back...