The Girl Behind the Gates

by Brenda Davies

‘Emotional wounds need the same amount of attention as physical wounds, but often we don’t give them that,’ Janet continues. ‘We just carry on and try to forget about them; pretend they aren’t there.’

‘Memories always have several parts – an emotional bit, a physical bit and a psychological bit. And when something awful happens, we feel shocked, and the memory of it gets split into those parts and some of them seem to get lost altogether.