Trauma Letters
Read personal stories from people who are writing about trauma.
Read personal stories from people who are writing about trauma.
But, Ollie Bug, I got him okay? I got your bubby. I will hug him twice as much for you & me. I love him to the moon & back just like I love you. FUCKING FOREVER! I will love you both. I am really good at living, always have been. Pretending I got this. I DON'T GOT THIS! Not lo...
Dear Potential Life Partner, After I graduated college, back in 1996, I would go down to Manhattan twice a month by taking the train from the suburbs. I would go to a gay bar. I was somewhat depressed at the time being that I just finished college, and I didn't know what my place in the world wou...
My Love, I love you more than I've ever loved before. I feel so fortunate to have you. So when I say that sometimes I hurt wondering if I am being told by you that my understanding of our shared reality is wrong all the time, know that hurt scars me deeply. The scars are so deep and raw that I'm ...
Dear Young Me, I'm so sorry. It will hurt, really bad. And even when you won't be able to bear it anymore, it will still hurt. I'm so sorry for what will happen to you and those around you whose pain you won't be able to understand because yours will always feel greater. Now I know what you'll ha...
Dear Society…Dear Stranger Who Will Read This, I will never meet you, neither you me. We don’t know each other, that’s the one thing we know for sure. But the one thing I know is that society can influence us so much that in the end, we don’t recognize ourselves. The world is beautiful, but our s...
To My Ex Who Is A Trader, You abused me more than you will admit to yourself ever. You physically accosted me multiple times and kept me down mentally. I feel like I had Stockholm syndrome, where I fell in love with the idea of who I met and couldn't bring myself to properly leave. You held my wi...
DEAR FAMILY MEMBER, I LOOK AT YOU WITH AWE AND WONDER, AS ONE MIGHT LOOK AT A RABID ANIMAL WHO THROWS ITSELF AGAINST A WALL, OR A SNAKE EATING ITS OWN TAIL, OR A CHILD WHO HURTS ANIMALS. YOU ARE THE CLOSEST THING TO THE DARK, DRIED UP, TWISTED PIT OF A ROTTEN FRUIT, THAT SCARES US ALL SO MUCH, TH...
Dear Dad, I can see the pain you’re going through and sometimes I wish you didn’t live so far away so I can have “daddy hugs” on the daily again. It’s been about 10 years since you left but I still miss you all the time. I know and understand the reasons why you had to leave. You had to live your...
From Your Daughter, It has been a lifelong struggle for me to process your abuse. To excuse and explain away your behavior, “she’s my mother so she must be right…it’s the way her generation was raised…she has a mental illness.“ Now you’re approaching your senior years and I am supposed to be gent...
Dear Readers Out There, This is a letter to those who don’t understand what PTSD is. I do not wish to write in my own handwriting for fear of someone seeing it and knowing who I am. That is why I am here, to share my story without fear of someone coming after me. What is PTSD? Well, it isn’t just...
Dear Mom, growing up was tough for me and my sister. At the time, we could not understand what was going on. I knew that you and dad were having problems. I did not understand at the time the trauma that you were enduring while being in a violent relationship. I remember giving you a hard time fo...
To My Darling Sweetheart, I hope this finds you in good shape. I am also fine. There is something that has weighed me down for almost 5 years now. I felt I should share it with you, my love. It is a secret that I’ve kept from everyone. It was during a summer vacation five years ago. We were campi...
It was almost ten years ago, the same week as my 19th birthday. I'd donated blood the day before a party some classmates were having and fainted so, still feeling a little weird and weak, I'd decided not to drink at that party. I offered to DD for a friend who happily accepted. We dressed up, bec...
Ex-Boyfriend, I still think about you a lot. I wish that I didn't think about you at all. You really hurt me. But I still wonder about you a lot. I wonder what you're up to, I wonder if you're still at that same job. I wonder who you're friends with anymore. I wonder if you are dating anyone. I w...
Dear you ever have is to your friend, I hope your junior year in high school went well. Congratulations, you are now a senior, and closer to adulthood tchan been. It nove teme for you to apply to colleges, and being academically well off just how I was back in high school, I'm sure you're going t...
Dear Dad, I have always wondered - why did you leave mom when she got pregnant? At first, I thought maybe we both weren't enough for you or that the thought of us and a family just didn't make you happy. Growing up I have always needed someone by my side and neither you nor mom were there. I k...
Dear Past Lover, I didn't know what I was missing in my life until I met you. You taught me how to love, how amazing life was, and how beautiful I was, though I didn't know. The day I met you was a really good one. You came to me, speaking a language I didn't talk at all, making my cheeks red...
My Love, You have to know how much I am hurting right now. You have to know how unfair this situation is. We are barely making it right now and you have chosen to add more a burden on us. Right now I am robbing the food budget to pay for Christmas and everything you need. It is so hard to live...
My Dear Dad, You are the person I admire most in the world. When Mom left us at an early age, you were the one who took care of me and you were both father and mother to me. I have hurt you many times, but you have never given up your responsibility. The biggest mistake I made is my life was t...
Dear Mom, I have so many things to say to you I know not where to begin. I would like, if you are willing, to let me put all my thoughts into parts. Let us consider this “Part I” About a week ago, you wrote me a letter, and I have yet to formally respond to that. Before I address any part ...
To The Man I Lost, When I heard you passed away, my world stopped. Time stood still. I become rock solid and cold. My tears took a while to show up, but when they finally did, they didn't cease to stream down my face for weeks. First came the shock, then the pain along with all the sadness ...
Dear First Love, I wanted to apologize, so I’m doing so now. This letter that you’ll never receive, an apology for what I did. Although I should talk to you, I won’t, because, if I hurt you, you did hurt me more. However, this is not a letter about what you did or what you did not, but about y...
DEAR DAD, IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN GONE FOR TWELVE YEARS. YOU WERE ONLY FORTY-SEVEN WHEN YOU DIED ON THAT SOFTBALL FIELD. THAT WAS THE HARDEST DAY OF MY LIFE. WHEN I GOT THE CALL FROM MY FRIEND WHO WAS ON YOUR TEAM THAT YOU HAD A HEART ATTACK, I YELLED AT HIM FOR PLAYING A SICK...
Dear Person who Hurt Me, I don't know who you are and I suppose I will never know. I know you may not know how much You've changed my life and you may not even care. But I do! I'm the one who has to live with what you did! I was only a baby and you felt the need to put your disgusting hands on...
To whom it may concern: Why did you do all of that stuff to me when I was younger? It changed me, both mentally and physically. I know I did not show it. As I was a Silent child. But you stole my childhood away, I sometimes wonder what I would have done and accomplished if you would have left me ...
Hey...A man's anger and a woman's love is immeasurable. It took some time for me to realize that I really hurt you and I can understand, by my heart, its extent. Even at that haunted time I failed to recognize tears at the corner of your eyes, that was bursting due to my behaviour at that time. I...
To my soon-to-be ex-husband, When we stood in front of our friends and family to pledge our love to each other, I never thought this is where we would end up! But the truth is, we had problems that started not long after we started dating. From the beginning, and probably for a long time before m...
Dear Sister, I am so sorry I have left you to deal with our parents all alone. It’s not fair we have to deal with their dysfunction and drama, but it is even worse I have removed myself from it knowing you cannot. I don't know how I am supposed to balance those things. If you are angry at me, I u...
Dear Society, So many times you now hear how drugs are bad for you. How many people are affected by the monster "meth?" Everyday l hurt for my stepdaughters who are only beginning to understand the drug. Even though they have been ignored, pushed to the side, used and abused by a drug addict pare...
Dear First, I am so happy that you are gone, I've moved on, and have a beautiful relationship with the man of my dreams. But somehow, I'm still burdend with the question, "Why "? We were together for 3 horrible gears, and get I know I nevermet the real you, why, were you take? Why did you trick m...
Dear Jerk, It has been a year since you did what you did and I still hate you for it We were friends for so long, I trusted you. Then on a Holiday, you decided to get drunk and send me those pictures? My husband still hasn't fully forgiven me for your actions. I never implied, hinted, or said any...
Dear Father, While I am writing that this letter, I know time is going fast and have very little time. This cancer has ruined almost all my life. I can feel the pain in your and mom's eyes when you both together see me with a sweet smile on your face. But I know your hearts are weeping when you s...
Dear old man Teacher My first day of college was amazing. I felt, at ease and felt like I belonged. However, there had been a few times where I Questioned your actions. One example would be when you get off-topic, and happened to bring up mental Issues. All of a sudden, you started making fun of ...
Dear Daughter, I’m writing this letter to tell you that I am sorry for what I’ve done to you. I know that I hurt you. I know that you are very sad, and it’s all because of me. I am sorry for hitting you so hard yesterday. I didn’t mean to hurt you so much. I was nervous and stressed when you ...
To The Baby I Never Met, I wanted to be your mother. I was so excited when the doctor told me I was pregnant. I already had two daughters and was excited to have a third baby. You were due on Mother’s Day in 2003. I counted the weeks of pregnancy, ticking off each day like one step closer...
Dear Papa, I wish that things could be different between us, wish that they could go back to the way that they were- we were close and enjoyed each other’s company, I told you everything & you taught me most of what I knew & believed to be true. Nowadays, we are no longer father and daughter...
A Mon Petit Chou, Salut. J’espère que tu es heureuse. Ii vous apportera du bonheur de savoir que je suis miserable ces années sans toi, honnêtement — il a été une existence miserable. Je vois tan visage partout. Je peux sentir tes mains sur mon corps comme un fantôme. Ton odeur, aussi, Je cr...
To The Man I thought I'd Marry, I see you. I see you there with her, on the street outside the bar after closing, faces pressed together, oblivious to the world. I see you secretly checking your phone when you think I'm not looking and smiling to yourself. I see you lock your iPad now - that's...
Dear, When I found out that you my husband of 8 years, had been viewing pornography for many years, it devastated me. You lied to me numerous times over the years when I asked you if you looked at it. When you couldn't perform sexually, I asked you again, and you could always lie and say no....
Hey Friends, I would like to share a painful story of my life with you. I was one of the best students in my school days, I studied well and I did everything well with my schooling. But, after I entered college, I lost a lot of things, skills, my identity. One of the main incidents that change me...
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