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Why is it sometimes referred to as assault and sometimes called rape. What is the difference?

I'm kind of stuck and not really sure how/when the time is to do this. When do you know the time is right to tell your spouse you were raped? The twisted backward part is we've been married almost 15 years already. :-( It's haunting me in a way so unimaginable. It happened before we were...

Is it considered sexual abuse or molestation when it happens to you as a child by another child? It's just a bit confusing to me and I really don't NEED a proper technical classification to remember what happened and know what went on. It's just something small that has been on my mind how it...

Do any of you hide your ptsd diagnosis or are you open about it? I have been diagnosed for years now, and just last year my husband of 14 years learned of it by accident and none of my friends or family know. It's just not something I want anybody to know and I don't want anybody to look at me...

Does this ever actually go away for good? Has anybody fully overcome and beat this struggle completely or will there always be triggers and nightmares? I just don't want to do this anymore. I know nobody here does. I'm at a breakdown point of overwhelming defeat right now. I just want it to...

Is there anybody else who's attack was a random act of violence by somebody unknown? It seems everywhere I read, everybody else either was a victim of childhood assault or molestation or else they knew their attacker through a prior relationship of sorts. I've been lurking a long time...kind...