{"id":14039,"date":"2021-10-07T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T23:20:50","slug":"a-survivor-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=14039","title":{"rendered":"A Survivor Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 24, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suicide&#8230;. Driven to suicide. Narcissistic Abuse is on the rise. Suicide is now an epidemic. It&#8217;s no coincidence and it&#8217;s so sad to think that such cruelty is even possible. What&#8217;s worse is that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it&#8217;s being allowed to happen. Domestic Abuse is perhaps the most unjustified of all crimes.I don\u2019t feel like I live in a Country that protects me anymore. I feel like I live in a society that doesn\u2019t know me. How could they without understanding what happened to me? Can anyone really \u201cunderstand\u201d without experiencing this type of abuse themselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been attacked in so many different ways. The pain is unexplainable. I did what I was supposed to do. I testified about the abuse. I knew he was going to be mad. I was afraid. But I had no idea it could be like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been like a horror movie and I\u2019m the only witness. Everyone thinks I&#8217;m crazy. I&#8217;ve lost everything and anyone I ever loved or cared about. I&#8217;m all alone. I was in the hospital for a month. I voluntarily admitted myself into the psychiatric ward because the pain has been terrifying me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m afraid if it gets any worse I might lose my mind completely. I was afraid I might kill myself and that is something I know not to be the answer. I don&#8217;t know why or how I&#8217;m supposed to go on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to think I was all alone until one day I heard Dana talking about \u201cFlying Monkey\u2019s and how abusers recruit people to help them just mess with Our lives in so many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just wanted to say that I wish I had the strength to fight! But I\u2019m just existing and I don\u2019t know how. I will not kill myself though. But I pray that somehow someone can get through to others so that the mask is off day so everyone will recognize the Narcissists. . I really just don\u2019t want anyone else to have to go through this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please make it stop someday. Or at least make it something that the law really tries to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been like a horror movie and I\u2019m the only witness. Everyone thinks I&#8217;m crazy. 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