Thehiddensouth.com Website Review

No matter how down I am, I'm gonna be a positive person. If I catch somebody who's down and out, I'm gonna help in some way, whether it's opening the door or giving a kind word. You're never alone in New Orleans. Someone is gonna reach out to you. In the last 6 months, I've been all over the country and have talked to 200 or so people about their experience with mental health issues. There was a lot of abuse, se*ual, verbal, physical, by staff. Unfortunately, I got su*ked into that and I was abused.  It was a recurring thing in my life. There were situations as a younger child that I had experienced se*ual abuse. So I'm thinking, now as a young I got put into foster care due to violence in my family. I had a brother who was bipolar and schizophrenic and that's how it started. He'd come home upset, and I was his punching bag so he took out all his anger on me. I allowed  it because that's my brother. It could be better. I just got out of jail for stabbing somebody. It was self defense. Got into an argument and the guy swung on me, I stabbed him. They put me in jail for aggravated as*ault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. I wasn't trying to kill the guy. I called the helpline when I was upset and they called the cops and the cops came with guns drawn into my house. I was so traumatized with the fact that they came in with guns drawn that I was switching personalities. They put me in restraints  and retraumatized me. I think that's what's special about New Orleans. Everybody has PTSD. Everybody's got that connecting trauma, and it doesn't seem like it'd be a good thing but it's shown itself in really positive ways. They gathered us all in the day room and told us the news and I just broke down crying. All of a sudden I'm surrounded by men dragging me completely na*ed, four point restraints and shoot you up with whatever drug they wanted to shoot you up with. I took off running and went to the nextdoor neighbors and nobody.. I couldn't find nobody. my brother had crazy bubbles on his back, like