Tag Archives: family systems disorder

Three Generations Too Much: MSbP in my family

“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” This well-known quote summed up the ruling of the Supreme Court of the US in the infamous case Buck v. Bell (1927), as written by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In the case of my family, I would say three generations of MSbP are too much. Yet, as I write […]
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The Truth Within

Given the family history of MSbP, it seems fitting that a medical trauma as an adult led me to the truth about my childhood abuse.  Help Hurts The first step in moving ahead with my post-injury life was to seek help for a phobia associated with medical personnel. I underwent two sessions of a type […]
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Surviving Adult Reports Childhood MSbP Torture: Part 18 – S.A.F.E. Phases 1 & 2

In my previous posts, I explained how I got to S.A.F.E., a facility in the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI). In my last post, I talked about the different types of “raps” we’d do in between “motivating”. In my earlier posts, I explained that the only ways to leave S.A.F.E. were to die, run away and […]
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The Gift of Life, The Gift of Death: Part two

As I said in the previous post, one of the central ironies of abuse is that the people who give us life are those who may give us death. My father, as I described in the earlier post, was not a forgiving man.  I describe the moments after my father came home, and my mother told […]
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The Gift of Life, The Gift of Death: Part One

For me, the core terror of parent-inflicted abuse is that the people who gave you life—parents—are apparently trying to give you death. It is true that offspring die in nature, at the paws or claws of parent or parent-figure animals. In lions, it’s often a new male entering a pride who kills the cubs of […]
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