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Hi, Been Here A While Just Introducing Myself

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Venusian

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Hi. I thought I should introduce myself here. I have been on the PTSD Forum for a while but I just recently started coming onto this forum.

About two years ago I started to recover memories of something that happened 43 years ago, when I was 5 years old. I was abducted by a man and then raped by two people, the man and a woman I never saw because I had a sheet or pillowcase wrapped around my head. I should be dead but instead they let me go and I will never know why. This all happened while I was supposed to be in kindergarten class.

There is a lot of things that I am still trying to make sense of, still memories coming back. Everything is disjointed, just flashes and emotions. At times I remember the pain but sometimes I just know that there was pain. Sometimes I remember how helpless I felt when I didn't have the strength to fight anymore. I tried to get away but I couldn't. It is like sometimes the memories try to find an opening in the wall but they are still so big they keep getting stuffed back behind it again.
 
Hi Venusian and welcome to the forum.
It is like sometimes the memories try to find an opening in the wall but they are still so big they keep getting stuffed back behind it again.
Gosh, how well you describe that. I was saying earlier this week that I wish I could stuff it all back again. But once through that tiny hole there is only one way - onwards and upwards and finding somewhere safer to store the no-longer-needed memories so that they give you peace.
 
Hi Brucielucy and thanks for the welcome.

I have had too much time sitting alone in my apartment recuperating from a surgery. I had a lot of distractions planned, just not the energy to do any of them....(note to self if I ever have to have surgery again.)
I have been dealing with the PTSD for a while but I think I haven't been dealing with what happened to me, if that makes any sense. I have been reading through a lot of the old posts and there is a lot of advice that I can use myself. I hope I can do the same for other people.
 
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