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dont normally post here but, today is a different day and feel i need to. please understand i am a woman after God's heart and i KNOW what i'm suppose to do.....just some days, well.....here it is.

Forgiveness. I’m trying….today I’m angry.
Perhaps it would be easier to forgive, if not for, the mental and bodily memories that I suffer every day and night. A life sentence of disabling pain. The offender never charged. His life gos on destroying others in his path. Family still accepts him, even coddles and pity’s him, while victims/survivors are expected to “get over it and move on.”

A court trail should be held when a survivor reaches adulthood. To prosecute and sue the offender for physical and emotional homicide to the victim. The deviant should be made to pay all medical cost and lost wages accrued throughout the survivor’s years, as well as serving his prison sentence.

No, money doesn’t “solve” it. What it does do, is allow the survivor to be treated medically when unable to work. Money for all the mental therapy, hospitals, physical illness and disease, surgeries. He has cost me Hundreds of thousands of dollars . My disease is directly linked by his and others abuse to me.
Doctors & scientist have proven it.
I am not whining....I'm hurting and this is the facts, it is the truth….this is the cost of surviving.

Signs of childhood abuse & trauma may go undiagnosed for years.
Years after the abuse when the survivor marries or has children or after raising his/her family or preparing to retire….. when, all of a sudden no longer able to function. Only to learn the extent of physical and mental disease that was caused by the abuser!

Abuse equals a lifetime of medical and mental disabilities. Poor health. Lifetime of pain. Physical, mental, spiritual and a soul in chronic pain.

Abuse often equals diseases of varying kinds.
Fibromyalgia, Depression, Personality Disorders, Anxiety, PtSD, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, inability to sustain a relationship; marriage, friendship, family relationships, the list goes on….it’s a life time of pain. Indescribable pain to the victim/ survivor…whom is sentenced and punished for horrific abuse that was against them.

thank you for listening, allowing a space to vent without judgement....thank you Jesus for hearing my pain.
 
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The consequences of some sins are horrendous and just don't suddenly disappear. Consequently it is hard to reconcile past events and present reality. Someone badly distorted your life big time. That is worth getting angry about. Face that anger and its intensity.

Later, you can relook at forgiveness. It's not pie in the shy stuff, but as Christins we do have a real hope of eventual justice and overwhelming restoration from our past pain. For many it will only be that hope which will sustain them in this life.

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I totally feel your pain! I am angry too. I am angry b/c thanks to choices made by other people I have to suffer the consequences for their sin. I have to wake up every morning with a mental illness and every night I go to bed scared. I feel alone and very weary. I know God is with me. My anger is fierce and very scary!

But even though I am fighting getting angry and I am fighting against asking God "why". Because we all need to get angry and get to that place in the desert like Jacob and wrestle with God. I am scared to wrestle with God so I try to get angry at everything else around me and even myself. Haven't brought myself around to fully wrestle with God yet.

I get angry over the fact that not only did I suffer this once but I have to bring it all up and suffer it again in a process everyone calls "healing". Why do I have to pay for their sins?

I also know that anger is a part of a series of steps you need to take to get to forgiveness. Don't beat yourself up if you are not fully at forgiveness. God knows exactly where you are and he is with you through it all. He may be able to answer some questions that you may need answered!

God Bless~
 
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dont normally post here but, today is a different day and feel i need to. please understand i am a woman after God's heart and i KNOW what i'm suppose to do.....just some days, well.....here it is.

Forgiveness. I’m trying….today I’m angry.
Perhaps it would be easier to forgive, if not for, the mental and bodily memories that I suffer every day and night. A life sentence of disabling pain. The offender never charged. His life gos on destroying others in his path. Family still accepts him, even coddles and pity’s him, while victims/survivors are expected to “get over it and move on.”

A court trail should be held when a survivor reaches adulthood. To prosecute and sue the offender for physical and emotional homicide to the victim. The deviant should be made to pay all medical cost and lost wages accrued throughout the survivor’s years, as well as serving his prison sentence.

No, money doesn’t “solve” it. What it does do, is allow the survivor to be treated medically when unable to work. Money for all the mental therapy, hospitals, physical illness and disease, surgeries. He has cost me Hundreds of thousands of dollars . My disease is directly linked by his and others abuse to me.
Doctors & scientist have proven it.
I am not whining....I'm hurting and this is the facts, it is the truth….this is the cost of surviving.

Signs of childhood abuse & trauma may go undiagnosed for years.
Years after the abuse when the survivor marries or has children or after raising his/her family or preparing to retire….. when, all of a sudden no longer able to function. Only to learn the extent of physical and mental disease that was caused by the abuser!

Abuse equals a lifetime of medical and mental disabilities. Poor health. Lifetime of pain. Physical, mental, spiritual and a soul in chronic pain.

Abuse often equals diseases of varying kinds.
Fibromyalgia, Depression, Personality Disorders, Anxiety, PtSD, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, inability to sustain a relationship; marriage, friendship, family relationships, the list goes on….it’s a life time of pain. Indescribable pain to the victim/ survivor…whom is sentenced and punished for horrific abuse that was against them.

thank you for listening, allowing a space to vent without judgement....thank you Jesus for hearing my pain.

I understand where you find yourself. I find myself there as well.

I have not worked for over 10 years, and those who have damaged me remain unscathed by life, flourishing and solvent. Meanwhile, every attempt I make to rebuild what is left of my life leaves me exhausted, alone and retraumatised.

I understand. I share your anger, and I share your frustrations.

I think we are allowed to be angry about this, because there is no resolution, there is no repentance, there is no contrition. There is only denial, abdication of responsibility and scapegoating.

God be with you.
 
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Thank you for sharing. Words cannot express my gratitude for your understanding. I'm so sorry for your pain and will hold you all in my prayers from this day forward. God bless you and keep you close. Your truth and courage is astounding. It is together, that we will heal.

It has taken me a couple of weeks to revisit this cf section. Those thoughts & feelings spilled on to the keyboard, causing mental & physical anguish that I thought had been healed. Apparently, not.



9th April 2010 05:54 PM Johnnz
The consequences of some sins are horrendous and just don't suddenly disappear. Consequently it is hard to reconcile past events and present reality. Someone badly distorted your life big time. That is worth getting angry about. Face that anger and its intensity.

Later, you can relook at forgiveness. It's not pie in the shy stuff, but as Christins we do have a real hope of eventual justice and overwhelming restoration from our past pain. For many it will only be that hope which will sustain them in this life.
John
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John, thank you!
Nobody has ever given me permission to be angry. What a powerful and wonderful gift you offered. All these years spent on trying to forgive and move on with my life. It's the physical disability that has set me off! Relenting pain, I am angry! Just want to scream so somebody will hear, no...listen, listen to me.

I've known for many years about my distorted thinking, however, I've nothing to compare it to.
Often my thoughts are paralyzed, wondering if they are correct, this causes large amounts of self doubt.

somberly...Dear God, help me move on. Heal our abused wounds that others cannot see but, are gaping holes in our souls.
I rest in your arms, Jesus...there is no where else for me to fall.



 
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