Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: A Cancer Survivor's PTSD
A survivor of multiple cancers reflects on her relationship with panic, how PTSD has shaped her life and her character.
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Katherine Davis, Author
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davikath8
Oct 93 min read
Medicine as Transaction: Why I Insist on Being Human
Medicine as transaction. I suppose I am not suited for it. But I ask myself, what are these startling realities calling me to do?
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davikath8
Aug 32 min read
Alice Munro and the Loneliness of the Abandoned Child
Recent revelations about author Alice Munro cause this writer to reflect on her own childhood
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davikath8
Oct 13, 20222 min read
On The Myth of Normal
While Gabor Mate in his new book, The Myth of Normal (https://drgabormate.com/), explicitly forgives parents who inflict their trauma on...
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davikath8
Jun 15, 20222 min read
Closing the Book on Gaslighting: On Learning My Psychiatrist of 20 Years Lost His Medical Licence
I shall close the long and gruesome history of gaslighting in my life with the following fact: my psychiatrist of almost 20 years lost...
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davikath8
May 22, 20222 min read
The Writer on Self-Creation
Not allowed to speak my thoughts or show my feelings, I was driven by my family of origin into art. More like, taken, tied, threatened,...
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davikath8
May 12, 20221 min read
On Escaping the Land of Delusion
I have broken the family contract. My mother enforced it: we (mother and three daughters) were never to acknowledge or object to my...
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davikath8
May 6, 20221 min read
I'm Still Here
Whenever I doubt myself, the continuity of my mind and my body, all I need to do is dance, turning and winding and bending and...
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davikath8
Mar 24, 20221 min read
Underrated Superpowers: Listening and Watching
If the abusers and alcoholics in my life sentenced me to silence, then in silence I learned and became acute. Who knew listening and...
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davikath8
Mar 5, 20222 min read
The Artful Beast
I think too much about goodness. Like any child I was taught that being good was ideal, “good” was what you should aspire too, “good” was...
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davikath8
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Continuing the Dance
I keep waiting to be tried for my crimes against humanity. What crimes, you might ask? (I ask myself as well, in constant evaluation of...
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davikath8
Dec 16, 20212 min read
Healing from Psychiatry's Excesses
Because I was determined to live fully and deeply, I weaned myself off psychiatric drugs. The suffering was intense but worthwhile....
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davikath8
Dec 4, 20211 min read
Knowing When to Walk Away
Having recently cut all ties with my family of origin, I have moved from anger, shock, and loss to feelings of freedom, joy, and release....
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davikath8
Nov 25, 20212 min read
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
My parents’ training of me started early and was original in its cruelty. Christmas day, 1975, when I was five years old, I cried because...
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davikath8
Oct 31, 20211 min read
My Only Judge, My Heart
I have told my story, read and reread it, edited and proofed it, polished and published it. So goodbye to all that. I slam the door on...
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davikath8
Sep 25, 20211 min read
Gift from a Promising Young Woman
The film, Promising Young Woman, by Emerald Fennell, gives all traumatized people, particularly women, an incredible gift: it does the...
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davikath8
May 2, 20212 min read
The Single Lesson of Talk Therapy
The single lesson of decades of talk therapy was communicated to my husband by a naked, elder colleague in the close quarters of a men’s...
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davikath8
Apr 12, 20211 min read
Assertive Bill of Rights
Quoted from “The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse” by Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, Rockridge Press, 2020 Adapted...
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davikath8
Mar 31, 20212 min read
What Not To Ignore
It would have helped if a single person had come forward to defend me or at least validate my perceptions of reality. Instead I had the...
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davikath8
Mar 25, 20212 min read
Modern Gaslighting
Unlike the character played by Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film, Gaslight, I had nothing valuable to motivate my father to undermine me:...
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