Story archives - tag: "trauma"

"leah"

All my mom's kids have two middle names, but one of mine comes from a woman whose son set the fire that killed her in her sleep.

tags: names mother friend death fire arson childhood trauma strange connections [add]

2011-06-06 08:04:05 / Rating: 262.25 /

middling mad

I was raped, molested, abused, lost, shot, and abandoned, but my biggest fear is taxidermy.

tags: fears trauma childhood life phobia [add]

2010-11-16 11:56:35 / Rating: 369.5 /

Traumatized

As soon as I heard my father ask 'Why is the toilet seat in bed with her?' that morning, I kicked myself for not checking on my sickly mother the night before.

tags: trauma sickness mom fear [add]

2008-10-13 16:21:24 / Rating: 311 /

kari

I never really believed my mom's stories of how abusive her childhood was until two days ago when my grandmother pulled me aside and quietly informed me that she wished she had never ever adopted that nasty little irish girl.

tags: abuse deceit grandmother adoption childhood trauma [add]

2008-09-11 20:01:57 / Rating: 632.75 /

Chstr

Up until I saw the man's legs sticking out from under the truck's trailer I had thought the woman's shrieking had been unmerited.

tags: death accident trauma screaming [add]

2008-05-27 10:08:34 / Rating: 426.5 /

-j

When the catheter tore through my mother's heart, it tore through absolutely everything.

tags: heart family trauma medical [add]

2007-12-07 15:05:55 / Rating: 564 /

Sarah

A beautiful, glamorous black woman laid in the trauma bay after her motorcycle crashed and as we cut her clothes off we realized that her pelvis was horribly broken and she would never be the same.

tags: trauma motorcycle beautiful accidents [add]

2007-10-01 13:50:59 / Rating: 391.25 /

Jackye Chan

I had to forgive my mom for using the duct tape, or else suffer the same fate.

tags: childhood trauma [add]

2007-08-06 17:02:19 / Rating: 349.75 /

Ann

I was an 18-year-old virgin when I was raped by a married Mexican in a Cancun nightclub.

tags: virginity secret rape trauma [add]

2007-06-19 17:15:25 / Rating: 452.5 /

XT_Momma

After that horrible accident, my mom was on a ventilator and I was the only one who could understand that she was asking to die.

tags: trauma sadness accident hospital [add]

2007-05-29 15:58:45 / Rating: 541.75 /