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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

First Person: 'The shame did not belong to me. The shame belonged on him'

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The suffering caused by domestic violence is emotional, spiritual and physical. But there's one aspect of that suffering that is almost invisible: brain injury. In this First Person diary, survivor Freya Doe shares her story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:18.6

This is on point.

0:19.8

I'm Megna Chocrabardi.

0:23.5

One in four women are victims of intimate partner violence in the United States.

0:28.7

That's according to the CDC.

0:30.9

And of course the suffering caused by domestic violence is emotional,

0:34.6

spiritual, and physical.

0:37.2

But there's one aspect of that suffering that is almost invisible.

0:42.0

Brain injury.

0:43.6

Too often, traumatic brain injury is going undiagnosed and untreated in survivors of domestic

0:49.0

violence.

0:49.7

Yet it can lead to long-term impacts that affect memory, concentration, balance, and vision.

0:55.8

And some survivors have lived with these symptoms for decades, but they do not know why.

1:02.2

Or did not know why.

1:04.0

Like the woman you're about to hear next.

1:06.8

Now warning, as we are listening to stories of survivors of domestic violence,

1:11.8

some of these stories contain explicit details of physical abuse.

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