Two years ago I was googling Chame Panama in search of a view of THE Mango tree and to show my boyfriend the "compound". Being a pretty good googler (had a few tips from Google staff themselves from a Marketing thesis paper for that part of my degree) and had such a hard time finding much. So I went backwards so to speak and looked up NTM to see if they carried photos of Panama on their site. BOOM I found a few items on NTM and child sex abuse and MKs speaking up and more to come......... my heart pounding and my palms sweating I hurridly bookmarked a few pages for later reading and research and slammed my laptop lid down and spent the following week in nightmares, panic attacks, fear of things I couldn't understand and so very many questions. The sadness I started feeling from that day on kept haunting me. I couldn't tell anyone what I had found from fear my parents wouldn't believe me, doubted even myself for the google results. I must have mispelled or maybe there were two NTMs and this one I found wasn't the one I was in.
Being that I was currently in a very intense sexual assault therapy and trauma program from an adult incident and dealing with extreme life stress during Mortgage crash and invetigtion I just burried it all by forcing it (hmmmmm more blocking from trauma for survival!)
The sadness and nagging didn't go away...it stayed behind the scenes and little by little more crept through. So when I got that email from PII I KNEW it was time and I wasn't crazy it DID happen. The rest you all know because that's how I found you
Total recall during my interview. So intense and as if I was 10 all over again. I guess having a team of people that took our story serious and wanted to hear so they could help made me feel safe enough to share.
I just realized how much more that what he did to me in Panama was even more damaging then I thought when I. Connect the dots of the past two years and why I started cutting again, the nigtmares were back, my reactions to my parents and the rage that would pour out of my mouth at 39 that of a child who couldn't express their pain but through rage. WOW...WOW. Another breakthrough but so very sad sad sad sad and my heart literally hurts from pain as I write this.
For those of you that don't know: my events of the past two years from extreme triggers, breakdowns, nightmares and unexplained rage.
Jailed 2 times (over defending my self)
Cutting so extreme I have two arms with deep scars never to go away
Homeless for a brief time as my parents threw me out because I was so out of control and raged at my father begging him to hit me as I screamed in his face my hate. Begging him to hit me so I could finally see if he had it in him to fight or stand up for someone (we all can guess why I did that!)
Over 20 suicide attempts
Extreme extreme self isolation hiding in the dark in bed for as much as 6 days at a time.
To even write and share what I just did sickens me from the deepest of sadnesses.
If someone googling and finding our story doesn't immediately want to find something, anything they can do to help, to stop and to call out NTM to seek redemption and help us have our justice for healing then that person has no conscious just as our offenders don't. Allowing more abuses to continue!!!