Rashami Desai Quotes

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

I was an abused kid.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

… the most uncouth … mental torture

That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.

I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I paused, looking over my shoulder to make certain I was alone. I drew her eye makeup, smudged by tears. In her watery eyes I drew the reflection of the commander, standing in front of her, his fist clenched. I continued to sketch, exhaled, and shook out my hands.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.