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The first person I told when I was trying to get help was my aunt (1 month after it happened), despite at the time being 23 him being my first boyfriend , had never kissed anyone which she knew and the fact that I am a christian who believes in the whole no sex before marriage thing (though no...

I was put on Effexor in june of this year for my PTSD , particularly to help with anxiety and panic attack symptoms. I was originally started on the lowest dose and my DR is slowly working up to 150mg , I am however very med sensitive , I am also on Mirtzapam and then have Benzodizapam PRN. I...

I've written a couple of questions on here before and you're answers are always supportive and help me to feel less alone , so I'm guess thats why I'm writing this... though i have no idea what to call it. For a quick brief , Im 24 and earlier this year when i was 23 i got into my first ever...

How long after being sexually abused / in a bad relationship did you start to date again ? My head is honestly spinning and it just feels so hard , like I'm in my mid 20's it was my first relationship so its a whole other kettle of fish. It creates this storm of thought in my head where even...

Have any of you guys had any experience with informing work / how did you decide to do it ? To give you some context, The day my sexual assault occurred was the day I got the phone call offering me the position for the current job. With work currently due to past trauma/experiences unrelated to...

I think I worked out what I was comfortable saying , It took me a long time to find the right words to speak out loud and it took me a couple of tries with different people. I think for me in the start when I started trying to get help I was able to communicate more effectively then I am now as...

Thank you guys for your replies , It's such a hard one to get my head around. How in the end I was just so numb and dissociative and just everything i believed and valued went out the window and that feeling of just being reduced to a piece of property and wanting it to end but not knowing how...

Hi , I was wondering if any of you guys out there handle this, Part of what happened to me after the event as i was in some sort of twisted relationship with the guy, I stayed because I was scared of leaving ( the things i feared happening after leaving have all pretty much happened) but...

I'm sorry this happened to you. I don't know if my response is of any help but I can understand the confusion you are feeling. I'm 24 and my first kiss happened during a very similar event (not a family member but a friend) the same thing happened with using fingers but not genital penetration...

I keep wracking my brain trying to work out the logic in this , but the whole thing is just like a bad nightmare with no logic. I don't know if it is because what happened to me on the spectrum of things that can happen during a sexual assault that mine wouldn't necessarily be classified as...