Thought to ponder 1.

From Finding Angela Shelton

How many people who have experienced trauma do you know?

Unfortunately I know many at varying degrees of horrific.  I know people who watched their parents struggle with alcoholism and gambling, never knowing what they would be coming home to or if their parent was coming home.  I know women who have been prostituted by their boyfriends or husbands.  I know women whose parents walked out, and whose grandparents prostituted them.  I know a woman who was gang raped by her uncles when she was three.  I know men who were raped as children.  I know men who are convicted pedophiles. I know women who used to pimp other women.  I know people who had to step over their mom's crack pipes in the yard to get in their home. I know women whose husbands used to beat them,  and who will tell you his manipulation and emotional abuse hurt more, because although physical pain goes away, the words are in your memory forever.  I know adults who were raped by their father as children and their families did nothing to protect them or stop the abuse. I know...this list could go on forever.

Suffice it to say: I know more people who have experienced trauma than I know who have not.