Name Your Trauma
Nov 5 · 6 min read
The following narrative deals with conversion therapy; religious and emotional abuse; and self-harm. Please proceed and read with caution, keeping your own well-being in mind.
It was Thursday, an emergency scheduled counseling session. I had been grappling with this nagging thought for about a week. My counselor had encouraged me to try and delve deeper into my own past, as a means of organizing and processing my life and my thoughts. I had hit a stumbling block, a painful memory that was deeply submerged. A night that I subconsciously and consciously was blocking out.

