This is exactly how it is for me... I try to hand it back over to the
abusers... and say I was the child... I was innocent of this vile sinful
sin... but is keep coming back... that it was my guilt... my fault...
that these men and women of god... Jesus brides... and their workers...
abused and raped me... I put the blame onto me still... Ann...
"I don't understand why the mind works like it does. Why I can sit here years later and tell myself, 'It wasn't my fault,' but it still bothers you," says DiWilliams, 59, of Roxborough. "I think because you picture yourself then, a little kid, and it makes you angry still."
Philip DiWilliams had mostly kept to himself what happened in a Roman Catholic High School counselor's office in 1969. Years later, when he decided to seek therapy, he told his wife, but did not want to upset his children.
Now, as Philadelphia prepares to welcome Pope Francis with all the celebration a papal visit garners, DiWilliams has decided to share his story.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150917_A_conflict_for_abuse_victims.html
"I don't understand why the mind works like it does. Why I can sit here years later and tell myself, 'It wasn't my fault,' but it still bothers you," says DiWilliams, 59, of Roxborough. "I think because you picture yourself then, a little kid, and it makes you angry still."
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Philip DiWilliams had mostly kept to himself what happened in a Roman Catholic High School counselor's office in 1969. Years later, when he decided to seek therapy, he told his wife, but did not want to upset his children.
Now, as Philadelphia prepares to welcome Pope Francis with all the celebration a papal visit garners, DiWilliams has decided to share his story.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150917_A_conflict_for_abuse_victims.html