Trauma vs. Writing

Keeping things separate: charting a poet’s course through and beyond the emotions of past trauma

A. Christine Myers
Nov 5 · 5 min read
Photo by Deniz Altindas on Unsplash

I am a writer. There! I’ve dared to say words I was never supposed to say.

I was never supposed to be anything. Anything at all, except a docile adjunct to my mother’s life. Anti-Social Personality Disorder is what she has, says my therapist, who…

A. Christine Myers

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