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I anticipate that I will be taking a blog-writing break. I have reached the limit of my sorrow and compassion for the infant-children of our nation who are suffering both greatly and needlessly.
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adult attachment disorders / borderline mother / Borderline Personality Disorder / Child Abuse / Depression / Dissociation / Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma and Its Consequences
Stop the Storm 
I been reading and you have been so right…I pass this on to my sister whom I hadn’t yet seen, and its been nearly 40 yrs now..she’s Mennonite and don’t own luxuries like an PC but we now talk and discuss our ill treatment by our mother and father…we have DID and I hadn’t known she was diagnosis ed …I was way back in the late ’70’s then called MPD. Our mother knew exactly what she was doing to us, yes, she had an tragic childhood..as her mother, and her father ran a major newspaper on the west coast..turn of the century…yep our genetic code most likely has been altered..Oh my sister is in Fla. I am in Hawaii…Mahalo for such good reading material!!!
I am so glad to hear from you, and so sorry for all of us — all of us!! And so full of sorrow that so many infants and children even now are suffering so much that their body will have to change in reaction to all their traumas, too. I worry about all the low income families with little babies that will not have the kind of care they need while their parents are working, about all those without enough food to eat, all those without stable housing, all those with parents who don’t know how to care for them right, for those that are being molested, beaten, screamed at, who go to bed scared and wake up scared.
As a nation we could HELP them. We could STOP neglect, abuse and maltreatment — if we wanted to. It just hit me so hard today, we as a nation DON’T CARE. We don’t WANT to help all the suffering ones. There is NO EXCUSE! NONE! I am just one person, but I — as you do, as your sister does — know what early suffering felt like and what it did to us so that we suffer for those traumas for the rest of our lives — as will our nation’s infants and children who are suffering now.
According to statistics it isn’t ‘a few’ of our little ones that are suffering. It’s a LOT of them, at least 30% — and my bet is it’s closer to half!
I am glad you can talk with your sister now. I don’t know if my mother’s brain ever let her know what she did to me. What I do know is that I have been thinking as hard as I can trying to remember one time, one single time in my long 18 years of abuse that I ever felt safe and secure enough to feel that ‘reward’ feeling, to look forward to something that I could be happy about, or to feel truly happy. I can’t think of one time, not one time.
Children who suffer from abuse — and even in our nation today — are holocaust victims. We are victims of war that we did not cause and could not stop. The richer and richer grow richer and richer in our nation yet nobody wants to pay to take care of innocent little ones while the poor grow poorer. Abuse, neglect and trauma to infants and children festers and grows in emotional and financial poverty. I can’t pretend I don’t know the little ones are suffering. I can’t make myself into the kind of person who is content to live my own little life without thinking about the suffering of others. I am ashamed of our nation. I am ashamed of all who did nothing to protect me, including my father and my grandmother. I am ashamed of all of us who refuse to stand up and claim the children of this nation and of this world — wherever they live — as our own.