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12 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Rorschach's Journal
I was looking for Rorschach's Journal entries from Watchmen when I came across this quote on Good Reads: “The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” — Alan Moore, V for Vendetta That's easier said/typed than applied, especially if one...
20 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"They came in with green vests and goat horns. They blasted everyone."Survivor of the Salvatierra Massacre On the night I moved into my apartment on 18th and Racine in Chicago in 1999, I was shaken down by the Latin Kings. A stoned, drunken gangb...
20 Jun 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Trigger Warning: This post deals with trauma and physical assault. That's not actually true when it comes to changing human behaviour and thinking, as it turns out. According to the various articles I have read on various counseling, mental health a...
6 Oct 2022 4 minute read 1 comment Rorschach's Journal
I think the cult's about to come after me, so I'm on edge. I just saw a neighbor call the cops and talk to them, then he spat in my general direction. I kept trying to tell myself the guy's spitting is just a byproduct of his smoking, but now I'm dou...
4 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Rorschach's Journal
TW: Rape and abuse of minors The fact that so many kids these days develop dissociative disorders hints at a cultural disease in America. Plenty of families and religious groups are so reluctant to believe anything bad about familial abusers and/or...
31 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments valo
Meaning good is not necessarily healthy We all have experienced some form of trauma as children. Sometimes it came through an accident that nobody could have prevented. Or, it could be school bullying. In some cases, the trauma happened at home. I...
19 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Today, on antisocial media, a woman responded — with a whole lot of misandrist bullshit — to my comment about living on my own and taking care of myself, on her post. Essentially, just because I live on my own, buy my own groceries, do my own cooking...
19 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Dark Unicorn Vet
So...where should I start. My diagnosis with PTSD didn't come out of nowhere. I have had many traumatic things happen in my life, but none that scarred me the way my experiences in Afghanistan did. I dont know if I can divulge the details on here, bu...
4 Jul 2020 8 minute read 0 comments Figuredee
Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States (US). This analysis describes trends and annual changes in in-hospital trauma morbidity and mortality; evaluates changes in age and gender specific outcomes, diagnoses, cause...
