Hi, I have suffered from mild PTSD for over 40 years but did not realize how bad it would get in the past few months after I started recovering memories.
I was abducted when I was 5, assaulted by 2 people, almost murdered and then let go after 3 hours. My family and younger sisters were threatened so that I would keep quiet and I believed them. I never told anyone and no one ever asked where I was, my parents thought I was at school and the school thought I was at home. Why the teacher never questioned why I showed up crying and unable to talk just before it was time to go home, I will never understand. I always remembered the beginning and when I was let go, but I could never remember the assault and I came to halfway believe it never happened. Over the past 6 months the memories have flooded back and it has been overwhelming at times. I started therapy a couple months ago to try and deal with it but it is still very difficult to cope.
I was abducted when I was 5, assaulted by 2 people, almost murdered and then let go after 3 hours. My family and younger sisters were threatened so that I would keep quiet and I believed them. I never told anyone and no one ever asked where I was, my parents thought I was at school and the school thought I was at home. Why the teacher never questioned why I showed up crying and unable to talk just before it was time to go home, I will never understand. I always remembered the beginning and when I was let go, but I could never remember the assault and I came to halfway believe it never happened. Over the past 6 months the memories have flooded back and it has been overwhelming at times. I started therapy a couple months ago to try and deal with it but it is still very difficult to cope.
