Thread: Resources for family members of people in abusive/controlling relationships?

These are basically your resources in your community: police, counselors, therapists, advocates, medical professionals. In your local area, find an advocacy group and they will surely direct you to the right place. Find yourself and your loved ones (not necessarily the same professional) a counselor who can help you go through your trauma.

Look up "domestic violence awareness handbook" on the internet and it shall show you links to these resources. I cannot post outbound links here. You can also go to the book store/amazon, and browse through all those self-help book available - that's what I' do actually.

Also look up "standford: controlling and abusive relationships". It will give you hotlines to call. Another resource you can look up is the "center for relationship abuse awareness".

The internet is your "resource" basically. Start the search engine, since outbound linking is not allowed in this forum. All the best for you, sweetie.

Thank you for that Catepillar. I have been spending a lot of time on google, I was just wondering if anybody had some input on resources they've used and can recommend - sometimes it is overwhelming to wade through everything that comes up. I was hoping for the abuse equivalent of al-anon i suppose. My problem is also that I am overseas - I live in Africa and my sister lives in Wisconsin, my contact with her is limited so I really want to make sure I do things right...