OVERSHARING AS AN ARTFORM
OVERSHARING AS AN ARTFORM
Survival Tactics and Thoughts on the World
Welcome to my blog. If you would like to subscribe, please do so at the bottom of the page. You can either scroll down or click the link at the top right. I'll be primarily writing about my experience in identifying and healing from narcissistic abuse and the web of correlated issues that come with it. It's a lot. Psychological abuse is everywhere and yet most people have no idea what it looks like. I want to change that by exposing what it looked like for me. There will also be some really bad film criticism and political takes. My apologies in advance for those. Unfortunately, politics has become inseparable from my experience. We will all need to heal in the coming years from what's been done to us. I hope to provide some illumination. It's been a while since I've written so my posts are more like rough drafts. I tinker with them a lot. You can follow me on Twitter @ChrisVL.
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Trauma on top of Trauma
June 2020 This is a poem I wrote about an experience with suicidal ideation. It's from a time when I was off my meds and in the midst of...
I Matter
June 12, 2021 My family, all of them, desperately need to learn this for the good of the next generation. I’m lost to them. My grandpa...
Reflections
My family still doesn’t treat me like an adult. They don’t see how if you don’t treat your children like adults at any time they will not...
A Blue Life is a Smurf
I’m sure this won’t win me any friends but it’s the truth... The thing about back the badge or blue lives matter is the specific context...
One for War, One for Peace
Cleansed by Fire When I burned down the relationships with my oppressors I rioted with words complete destruction as a last resort And...
Help!
I’ve been unable to get any relief money and it’s become impossible to make ends meet. My mom just doing what she can but like me, she is...
Inner motivational dysfunction
When I talk about how my inner life was arranged to to get everyone I met to like me, some people have trouble seeing how that’s a bad...
The Truth is a Hammer
When you see what Steve Schmidt is doing to Trump you begin to understand what I’ve been doing to my dad. Beat them to death with the...
Stacks
Truth is the only capital I care to measure in that I am rich They can stack their lies even higher than their ghost money They can't buy...
Wednesday, its Wednesday right?
I've been doing most of my writing free hand these days. I find I like the process of writing again. The physical act of putting a pen to...
9/11, Revisited
The modern Republican Party and the state of the world today is bin Laden's lasting gift to humanity. When history traces the roots of...
An Irrational Need to Explain Myself. Part One.
What most people don't understand about my experience with mental health is that all the work I've done, literal decades of work, was...
A Poem, Perhaps
Fuck speaking truth to power power is a posture and it isn't real and even if it was it wouldn't listen Speak your truth to pain speak it...
Broken beyond Repair
The obvious division in this country is a direct product of a news media that is driven By a profit motive instead of a civic duty to...
Shedding Armor
Scott used to say “why do you think everyone’s out to get you” He also named my anxiety in the way only he could long before I had any...
An Irrational Need to Explain Myself. Part 2.
The time I spent in Oregon in 2017 was the most important time in my life. It was the first and hardest step in a long and painful...
Bodhisattvas
It's a complex set of feelings to ask for and receive help. Social programming has placed a sliver of shame in there, but i know its...
Us Too
A man who should never have had a child has two. As he drives away from his family forever his daughter turns to the mother of his...