My therapist and other knowledgeable people suggest writing as part of the recovery from emotional abuse. It's definitely been important for my healing.
Putting order to my thoughts and memories is the primary use of writing out the story of my tumultuous and destructive relationship with Tina. It's an aid to finding the objective truth after having my entire perception of reality warped by a constant campaign of gaslighting. Reasserting objective reality and injecting it into the world is re-empowering. My perception matters. My experience and truth matters.
Tina's behavior could be so outrageous as to be nearly unbelievable. When I'd make certain observations, I'd stop and think along the lines of "It can't be what it looks like. Nobody would do that!" But, Tina would and did do that. Writing out the details has been necessary to avoid glossing over just how bad things were. Setting the story down in an ordered manner helps lift the mental fog that Tina brought about with her constant deception.
Read the rest at the new Adventures of Dan and Tina.
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