Mercy Ministries And Child Abuse

Abuse is not something that many people talk about in our society. Any type of abuse is tough to go through. Sexual, mental, and physical abuse are some of the least talked about subjects in the world today. People are afraid to find out just what it means to be abused. People hide in the dark in fear because they cannot bear the thought of this happening to anyone they know. People who have been abused avoid the subject, scared to make it real.
The fateful year that the abuse started was when I was nine years old. I did not know what this was or what this meant. I was far too young to understand what was happening to my body. Although the boy that did this to me was a year younger than me he had been abused before. So, Even though he was …show more content…
Halfway through my senior year of high school I went to Mercy Ministries. Mercy Ministries is a place where girls can go to get the healing they need and to get closer to God. The usual stay is six to nine months, I stayed for seven weeks. While I was at Mercy I learned a lot of ways to cope and ways to come back to reality. I went to counseling, church, and other activities. I met so many people there, people who I consider my family. I learned how to somewhat control the urges to harm myself. My counselor Stephanie became so important to me I continues to talk to her even after I left. I got discharged after they sent me to a hospital because I was suicidal. They called me while in the hospital and said I had been discharged. I was devastated, I believed that it was the end for me, that I was going to die now. Mercy was the last chance I had to get better and live a happy life. Now that I have been home for a while I have gotten a bit better and I am back on my medications I have been a lot better. I still need help but I am a lot better than I used to …show more content…
Few people in my life know what happened and they don’t know the whole thing. They don’t know what I’ve gone through to try to get better. Although I am still not better, I want to try to talk about it more so that maybe I can get better. I am still a danger to myself and I cannot trust myself to tell others what I plan to do in the future. I will continue to try to become a positive person with a future instead of a person who wants no future. I will strive to talk about what others are scared to talk about. People may be scared to find out what abuse is really about, but people need to know what to do if they are put into that kind of situation. I am still scared to talk about the sexual abuse because I know it makes it real, but I also know that talking about it will help more than it