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1 - I was afraid to get help or tell on my mother because in those days, there was no one who would listen to a child.

Today it has changed, at least in the United States. Every state has agencies to which abuse can be reported.

If you are being abused, regardless of your age, call the police and ask them what state agency you should report abuse to in your state.

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2 - If you have been abused, don't make the mistake most of us make and not report it.

Report the abuse the the authorities immediately.

Get help from a professional immediately. Do not 'treat' yourself. GET professional help from a minister, priest, psychologist, counselor (psychiatrists are not the best to try to get help from, not only are they the most expensive, they are often the least qualified and may in fact be abusers themselves).

Get out of the situation with the Abuser immediately.

If you are the abuser and are abusing your self with alcohol, drugs, etc. stop, get help.

If you are the abuser and you are abusing others, get help immediately.

If you have been led to join a cult or religion which promotes weird or sick behavior or questionable acts GET OUT NOW!

If you know someone who is being abused report it immediately (in most areas is is against the law NOT to report it).

I was abused for over 20 years before I realized I could stop it by simply reporting it to the police (which I finally did).

I was abused by people I thought were friends, I had joined a cult and did not realize it was a cult. I wanted to belong to be accepted, and the cult leaders played upon my need for acceptance to lure me in. Then they gave me praise and other rewards for doing things I knew were clearly illegal or immoral or just plain sick such as hurting animals and other people.

Of course there's more, checkout the various sites on the web dealing with abuse.

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3 - I was raised in a house where my father and older brother regularly beat me. They thought it was "fun".

I was afraid to tell anyone because I thought I was "no good" and that something was wrong with me and that's why I was treated so harshly.

I was also afraid of the consequenses from my "family" if I told a teacher.

To this day I have nightmares about my youth. When my father died a few years, a part of me was sad but most of me was glad.

How does a person who was beat almost to death deal with that? How does a person who lives with nightmares and has an unlisted phone number to keep a sick brother from finding me deal with all these things?

I wish I knew.

Tim


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4 - Don,
I'd like to invite your readers to hear an interview with myself and some national experts on abuse. It was aired on KLOVE radio stations and can be heard at KLOVE.com under the News & Weather section your readers should select Closer Look and then listen to the story about Abuse aired on Feb. 12th. They can read more of my own story at AsIwasThinking.com.
Thanks for your work to help,
Erc (Comment this)

5 - Hi all, my name is Lauren G, the daughter of Eric G. It is hard to say that the real victim of abuse is me, his own daughter, he was suggested by a psycologist to have narcistic personality disorder and therefore struggles to see the truth and result of his actions. After my dad (Eric) abandoned my Mom to take care of the five of my siblings and i alone, he also made it very clear that he cared more about money than his children. Since then I have had to go to numerous counseling sessions dealing with the way he treated me and the pysical and psychological abuse that he manipulated us with our whole lives. How did it continue so long? that is the questiong that I have to ask and also...will it ever end? (Comment this)