I would think that would be pretty traumatizing, especially for a child. Did you experience any short or longer lasting PTSD symptoms afterward, like nightmares, flashbacks, fear of being alone, etc.? I’m so sorry this happened to you. Home invasions leave even adults feeling so violated and vulnerable; I can’t…

Yikes! Your poor aunt, living there all alone with four kids to protect. Did her (ex) husband ever come back into the house, even just to visit the kids? Also, were you not allowed to attend the blessing bc of your temper or was it another reason. . . totally not judging —I can be pretty dramatic and don’t think…

He says “my parents and I sleeping in one room”, with his aunt and uncle in the other.  Presumably, as a 6 year old, he slept in a bed with his parents or a cot nearby.

Both terrifying and beautifully written.

This is the scariest story on here because of the real monsters out there. Thank you for your bravery in sharing your trauma and also your strength. You did what you needed to do to survive and anyone who doesn’t understand PTSD can fuck right off (I want to punch that teenage boyfriend in the throat). I’m a…

Go haunt some other thread, Halloween Scrooge.  Seriously. 

Well, he called him out all right but reading that “well respected” guy’s associated thoughts on women (i.e. only gay men are interested in ever being friends with women, women don’t want to listen to “car talk and FortNite shit” and “we men don’t care about your stuff either, ladies”) that were thrown into his…

Yet he can call her a cheater? 

I believe Kate Spade actually stated in the note she left to her daughter st like “don’t blame yourself, go ask your father why” which are fairly awful last words to leave to your twelve year old. So, ugh, that somehow leaked and her husband got side eye but also a lot of sympathy as well. She wasn’t struggling with…

Thank you!  Though I don’t really know what they have to investigate. . . 

This list is wonderful—still up and functioning and apparently in contact with Maddison and her family. They not only methodically identify each of these disgusting excuses for human beings, they give their rap sheets (because of course) and, where applicable, identity where these “upstanding citizens” work, with…

Please refrain from insulting the developmentally delayed by associating them with Roseanne/Trump tweeters. That’s vocabulary Roseanne herself would use and then be disingenuous and claim her nephews son was a retard so how could not be anything but a joke, blah blah. It’s gross. Do better. Just because you find…

Oh Lordy. It’s a given that a forty-seven year old (sorry, forty-five year old) proud that he habitually dates women more then two decades younger would assume he is actually being called cool without a trace of sarcasm. :/

And yet. . . The reason it did affect her emotionally was that it did fly in the face of logic and she was left with no other options. Are you saying she somehow misunderstood the operator/dispatch saying they couldn’t help her further? Because it sounds to me as if that is the very essence of her trauma—they could…

Oh so now the majority of the homeless population are “crazed” and raving around the streets like the Walking Dead? No. I’ve lived in San Francisco for 30 years and treat a lot of those people in the ER. There are a myriad of different reasons for their alarming outbursts. Everything from psychosis like…

Typically with some kind of psychosis, yes, sometimes—people can say things they would be horrified about in their right mind. However, racist, misogynistic and homophobic outbursts are not typical of people with most mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression or PTSD unless that was a core part of their psyche…

So not turning to virulent racism and misogyny when overwhelmed puts someone on a “high horse”? Sounds like you’re already wallowing in mud of some sort and just want some company.

Absolutely. And fuck his patronizing “we’re going to take that to Washington with us”. That box will sit in the trunk of his or in the corner of an unused office until someone eventually chucks it in the trash. And that’s reprehensible.

This comment befuddles me—Pink herself obviously loves make-up, shoes and flamboyant costumes. They’re s part of her “badass” image and I can’t believe she doesn’t respect other women who enjoy dressing up as well. I thought her speech about promoting her daughter’s sense of self and beauty was amazing. There are…

Sorry for the abuse you’re getting here. I totally got what you were saying the first time. There was something. . . ‘off’ about the guy’s first comment. It rubbed me the wrong way as well, like a stereotypical guy who believes, “hey, when my wife’s mad at me, all I need is that little blue box, heh heh! And now…