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@HiddenHeart Thank you! :)

@CapuletOh no, I did my own therapy as no professional therapist had the knowledge to help me. I quite literally became my own counsellor :) Unfortunately professional therapy doesn't have the knowledge behind them to help imprisonment cases. I now educate the health system to better equip them if future cases emerge. Thank you for the warm welcome :)

@MeBeMary Thank you so much for the warm welcome

@WannaMoveOn I know of Natascha Kampusch, I remember the public giving her a hard time because she came over as "Emotionless". Which couldn't have been further from the truth, she's one of the most determined people I have seen next to myself. Especially given her age and situation in which she publicly addressed everything that happened, she's always been very courageous. @Finchy I am glad too! ♥ x

@WannaMoveOn Thank you for the warm welcome! Imprisonment cases are rarely heard of due to the deep effects it can have on the person. Because our entire life has been taken from us and once free we have to pick up fragments of a life that never existed. It poses alot of challenges. Though I am blessed as unlike most Imprisonment cases I am fortunate that my perpetrator is no longer here. I am truly free were most still aren't due their perpetrators still having a profound impact on their lives. Even after freedom has been obtained. I just recieved your wee message and will lo

Hey everyone! I was recommended After Silence by the lovely @Finchy. I am really happy to be here to share my experience and to be part of the community. Little about my experience: I am an ex imprisonment case of thirty-five years, the first in the UK and Ireland and the longest on record. My perpetrator (Father - Deceased) kept me imprisoned from the age of four years old to thirty-five in which I escaped and managed to save my mother as well from his tyrannical cruelty. Although I do not count myself as a victim, because I will never allow him to have that power over me. Unf