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Episode 6 | I Know Shame Very Well: On Childhood Abuse, Suicide, and the Light I Didn't Think Was Possible
I know shame very well.
This episode is about where mine came from and what it cost me. I was a preteen boy used as an instrument of someone else's sexual gratification, in a household where psychological warfare, emotional manipulation, and physical violence were the methods used to raise me. I'm not interested in blame or in making anyone out to be a villain. I'm telling you what I carried.
On November 2nd, 1994, I tried to take my own life and arrived at the hospital DOA. I'm here because of first responders, a friend, and the ER doctors — not through any specific will of my own.
When that…
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