Healing Wounds- Support for Abuse Survivors

I was given permission to post my forum for those of you who are survivors that would like a safe haven to post in. I thought i'd offer my site to those who are interested.

It's called Healing Wounds it's been up for over a year with over 300 members, alot of information, and very caring staff.

http://z14.invisionfree.com/Healing_Wounds/

If anyone has any questions feel free to PM me.

An important factor when recovering from trauma is to be willing to "close that door" and go on with life. And experience has shown that this process can be expedited by resorting to "Thought Stopping Techniques."

Click here to know more about them:

http://effectivethinkingandmindpower.blogspot.com/

Counselor

Healing Wounds has been moved to: http://healingwounds.spreebb.com

Not moving 500+ member's over, you may have to re-register.

I've had to move Healing Wounds again due to issues with that board, and lack of support there. (spreebb server)

Anyways the new forum is: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Healing_Wounds/index/

If you were on either the invisionfree, or the spreebb board you will have to re-register.

As a survivor of abuse, I found it helpful and insightful to volunteer at a local refuge center for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). It assisted me in learning the abuse was not my fault, not even about me at all and I was far better off then others, as I was financially independent and had not been beaten down emotionally, to the point I had to have intensive, long-term care.

Currently I am conducting a research on survivors of abuse. If you would like to participate, it could go a long way into research for IPV victims and possibly determine a possible adjunct treatment option specific to a survivors emotional state. Those interested can go to:

*link removed by mod*

A friend of mine is a survivor of Domestic Violence, she was married to a man who was an abusive drunk. He would be physically and emotionally abusive and I feel that his behaviour is in fact learned as his father is a very rude and abrupt individual.

To be honest I have a feeling they are in fact both Narcissists. She got away from her abusive husband after he started to become physical with their son who is also within the Autism spectrum. She herself struggles with mental health as well, primarily anxiety and PTSD (as she is also ex-military) I have offered her my support and advised her that I am here as a friend however over the past couple of months our own interactions have become strained due to our individual mental health situations.

She no longer talks to me and has avoided me for some time now, I miss my friend and so badly want to be able to help her but I also know she needs her time and space to deal with her issues on her own.