misery memoir

• traumaLasting psychological wound
• childhoodLife's earliest phase
• abuseCruel or violent treatment
• sufferingSustained experience of distress
• survivalRemaining alive against odds

confession · addiction · recovery · neglect · alcoholism · poverty · dysfunction · resilience · raw · harrowing · foster · redemption · Angela's Ashes · gritty · catharsis · painful · abandonment · healing