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Although I have written some things here and talked around things to some friends I have never been able to say the actual words of what happened. I speak in euphemisms or have them sort of guess what I am saying. But last night I was able to actually say the words of what happened to a friend...

I just started therapy and I'm having an exceedingly hard time. The sexual abuse took place 12 years ago when I was a young teen and I never talked about it at all. So there is just a lot shame and silence surrounding it in general. I had my second appointment and she said we didn't have to go...

i think the biggest thing the sexual assault did was silence me. I was 14 and he was my best friends dad. So even once I knew what was really happening and wanted it to stop, I couldn't actually do anything without blowing up my life and her life. She would have been devestated to find out. I...

Most people someone who is a wild-card. They are too loud, take up too much space, and you can never plan for or anticipate what they'll do next. People like this are a huge trigger for my PTSD and I often don't know how to handle them. Being around them makes me panicky which leads to immense...

I live in a dorm (a huge house with 20-30 other girls) and I am having a huge uptick in symptoms and PTSD problems. I think it's because I am going to be finally going to therapy and trying to work on the trauma. But I am literally a tickin time bomb all the time and whomever gets in the way/...

I am new to the site and hopefully soon starting therapy to deal with my PTSD that started when I was barely a teenager (12 years ago). I want this to be a targeted thing and want to work on coping skills, symptom management, and getting rid of this stuff without ending up in therapy for the...