“They’ve already begun calling your relatives and your business associates.

They’re telling everyone that you’re mentally unstable.

That you’re addicted to prescription medication.”

And that was the moment I understood the true shape of what I was facing.

Because they were not only trying to escape responsibility for what they had done to my body.

They were, simultaneously, working to destroy my credibility, to poison every well I might drink from, so that when I told the truth, no one would believe me.

It is a strategy as old as abuse itself, and a diabolically effective one.