After years of being misdiagnosed with depression and bipolar, I was correctly diagnosed a few short years ago as having Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is an anxiety disorder. My anxiety... Read more >>

About six years ago, I tried crack for the first time. It never really had an effect on me until a childhood friend introduced me to mass quantities of it. He was the first person I ever told about... Read more >>

By the time I was twenty-one, I was married and had my daughter. I lived a drug free life until she was about fourteen. About three years ago, I woke up in the Intensive Care Unit because I overdosed... Read more >>

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We are all born innocent, but Domestic Violence ruins that innocence. I know the affects Domestic Violence has on children because I am a... Read more >>

Today, May 18th, is National Day Against Child and Teen Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Brazil, where I live. So, I spent most of the day considering sharing or not my experiences on the matter.... Read more >>

Here's a little poem I wrote about the sexual abuse I endured as a child. Hope everyone likes it. Thanks for reading. -Paige Porcelain Doll We were both so young, I doubt you knew it was wrong,... Read more >>

Tears streamed down my face as I lay the phone back down. I could not comprehend the enormity of what I’d just been told. Concerned, my friend Charlene, who happened to be visiting that... Read more >>

Today, I got a wonderful surprise in my mail at work. Actually, it wasn’t a real surprise because I had ordered it, but the timing of its arrival was wonderful. You see, I had my new business... Read more >>

It’s been over two years since I wrote my initial article “My Story of Sexual Abuse.” (This article is still posted on DivineCaroline). I’m now thirty-one. Life is going so... Read more >>

Hello again sweetie, You’ll find the first part of my story below. I realize that some of this may seem strange or hard to imagine, given what you’ve experienced with me, my parents,... Read more >>