Category Archives: PTSD

Lisa’s Story, Part II: “I saw other children forced to undergo the same things I had to, but for longer. Or being forced to undergo things that were even worse… I remember feeling grateful at first that it wasn’t me. Then I stopped feeling anything at all.”

Day 900. Survivors found: 11 Read part one of my account here. One of the first things to come back to me was the sound of the cries. There were these small, whimpering baby cries of protestation from all around the room. I guess we were all more or less babies at the time. There [...]

Attachment Therapy Survivor Lisa: Preschool Torture Manifests in Adult Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Day 850. Survivors found: 11 It seems so big right now, I don’t know how concise I can be, but I’ll try. I was 4 years old when my parents put me into an attachment therapy nursery school. I attended for a year, and had outpatient holding therapy sessions for the 2 years following. I [...]

Attachment Therapy survivor Katrina: adoptee and former child patient of convicted child molester Thomas Gill speaks out publicly for the first time

Day 624. Survivors found: 9 I was adopted when I was four years old. Over the years, I was “treated” by attachment therapists: Nonie & Bruce Wilson in Portland, Oregon; Kathie Leah Bishop in Eugene Oregon; Tom Gill & Beverly Cuevas in Washington. The first time it happened I was about 7 years old. No [...]

Adoptive Parent’s Testimonial of “Attachment Disorder” Therapist Arthur Becker-Weidman

Day 549. Survivors found: 8 The following testimonial comes from an adoptive mother who paid for the services of Arthur Becker-Weidman. Becker-Weidman claims to be an adoption expert specializing in “the treatment of adopted and foster families with trauma and attachment disorder.” His current operation is the “Center for Family Development” in Western New York. [...]

Message From a "RAD" Mom Who Shipped Her Adopted Son From Russia Off to Joyce Sterkel's Ranch

Day 287. Survivors found: 5 Someday I’ll make a post devoted exclusively to all the asinine, condescending vitriol I receive from pro-AT/P parents and “professionals,” just for $#*ts and giggles. In the meantime, will just post this one comment due to its unforeseen relevance with the recent mass media hoopla over foreign adoptees and the [...]