disclosure

Well as promised, here is the confessional part of my blog.
I am an incest survivor as well as having survived schizoaffective disorder.
There are a couple of other labels that I have outgrown as well including post traumatic stress disorder.
I am not out at work nor is this part of my public profile as an author. Unlike Maria Hyland I have yet to tell this part of my life in the public sphere. But I have submitted an article that may change that. There is so much silence around these topics that someone has to break the taboo and be public about it so the shame is much less.
Stigma as one of my work surveys has said is rife.
My partner has cautioned me against even whispering this aloud in the blog world. But someone has to say I have survived this so other people know that you can. And thrive not just survive.