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I find identifying as a victim very healing, I never allowed myself to for years but when I did I think that's when healing took place. I think you have to identify as a victim before you can view yourself as a survivor.
When people tell me that I am a survivor not a victim I find it...
"You did it to yourself"
My grandma said when I first told her the full extent of what my brother had done to me and how it caused me PTSD.
I've never heard anything more hurtful in my entire life, but it was healing because I knew somewhere in the back of her mind she blamed me.
She said the...