Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2611

Tonight's special guest is Chris Scramuzzo from Denver, Colorado, who says his dad was a sociopath. "My dad told me uncles had sexually abused him. He lived his life lying to gain emotion and innocence." He explains, "His abuse started to me when I was born, he tried to smother me, beat me, sexually abused me, and indented my skull at my soft spot to damage my blood brain which started the vein to fill with toxins until the vein rupture and I had my stroke. It took 29 years to collect in my blood vein to rupture." He goes on, "School was even more of a problem for me because my dad set up my friendship styles which were in lieu. His guilt was laid on my shoulders by making his memories be my memories (ie gaslighting, narcissism). All the way through my school years I had to tell the truth. He would make me be the criminal through identity theft .. it was not my identity it's my dad. My dad wanted me to go to jail or for me to die in jail." Now things are different. "I see a psychiatrist now. I will be reaching out to a trauma-based therapist. Once I started on ADHD meds I seemed to get better. I only began to realize I was on my healing journey in 2018. I went from darkness to light during this time where I began to understand more about what was real in my life and what was illusion from my past. And I also have the recovery from my stroke going on." Chris' advice?  “Look for truth, look for security, be firm in what you know, reach out to others who understand and that you can trust.”