WANTED: Your Personal Stories About Abusive Relationships

[Elizabeth Blanchard Hills]

Greetings, All:

As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I am currently working on a series of stories for the allnurses.com community.

Specifically, I am interested in your personal narrative:

• Have you ever been in an abusive relationship?
  
• Are you currently in one, but thinking of leaving?
  
• Have you yourself ever been an abuser?
  

If you'd like to be interviewed, please PM me by clicking on my username above. If you are a new member and do not have at least 15 posts, please post in the thread that you want to talk with me and one of the Admins will share your email address with me. Your personal point of view will be invaluable.

Also, if you have specific questions you would like for the series to address, I'd love to hear them. Please post your ideas below. Here are a few ideas of my own:

• Is there anything about our profession that makes us more (or less) vulnerable to becoming involved with an abuser?
  
• We often hear how nurses "eat their young". Are nurses also abusers? In there a connection between bullying at work and bullying at home?
  
• What patterns, if any, typify a victim and abuser?
  

What do you ​think should be included in a series of posts about domestic abuse?

[tnbutterfly - Mary, BSN]

I would love to PM you if I could *dramatic pause* but I am new. How do I do this now?

You won't be able to send/receive PMs until after you have 15 posts. With your permission, as an Admin I can give Elizabeth your email address.

[Elizabeth Blanchard Hills]

We are closing this thread, so I can begin work on the interviews themselves.

I'd like to share a short video, courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic, about empathy and the critical role it plays in patient care.

In my opinion, empathy also plays an important role in journalism, and I am humbled, moved and inspired by your personal stories—those I have heard, and those I have yet to hear. Thank you for your generosity.

Here's the video. Full disclosure: Grab a tissue!

[video=youtube_share;cDDWvj_q-o8]

[tnbutterfly - Mary, BSN]

Thread is now closed to further response.