Sexual Assault Confusion

[Matth1as]

Hello

Has anyone else ever experienced overwhelming uncomfortableness/sadness when a certain topic is mentioned, but they can't remember why? Whenever the topic of rape is mentioned, I feel sick to my stomach and I immediately begin crying and shaking uncontrollably. I know that I have been in many sketchy situations when something like that could have been possible, though I'm unsure if that is really the case. I feel as if it happened, though, because I flinch when barely touched and I had a full blown panic attack the other day when someone touched my butt.
AHhhh
help
thanks

 

[IamFree]

I relate . my trigger is familys. my family was so grossly dysfunctional I had to remove myself from them for my own protection. When people talk about spending time with there familys I can feel pretty awful. its getting better now I am learning how to deal with the emotions. I just used to isolate myself to avoid the triggers. I am learning how to accept I have no control over what people talk about. I can only learn how to change what I think and feel. I can feel very envious to of everyone who has what I have always wanted but I must learn how to be happy for what others have I must not wish any of what happened to me on anyone.

 

[Matth1as]

I relate . my trigger is familys. my family was so grossly dysfunctional I had to remove myself from th...

You are very wise : ) Thank you for sharing and relating with me with your story. I am just struggling with validating myself right now.

 

[Friday]

I've had the opposite. Instantaneous loss of all emotions, ice cold. Oh. Shit just got serious. Okay, then.

 

[Ronin]

Depends what the sexual assault/s is connected with, by whom and the situation and how expecting it as a possibility I was.

Some just trigger suicidal despair, because I didn't expect to be attacked in that situation, doing what I am doing.

& It doesn't tend to register emotionally if the situation is other fighting than just a sexual assault, the 'bigger' thing registers first, and for longer. Took me months or years with some to figure, shit, sexual things were involved. Right. I was busy not choking, first. Things like that.

 

[EveHarrington]

:hug:

Sometimes it's hard to figure out why we have certain reactions.