Hating yourself is obviously exhausting. Sue me!
I return to Anne Charlotte Robertson's Five Year Diary in moments of crisis (often!). I've wanted to write something like this for a long time but you have to find a place this is both anonymous and personal. The word I kept thinking of today was demoralizing. To see a victim of abuse have to pay her abuser millions of dollars for the crime of speaking out. I was using the word demoralizing.…