Numb? Normal???

[Bidopa]

At 17, I was raped. I had talked openly about this in therapy but I don't have emotions about it. As I became an adult, I started to wonder if it's avoidance. Or acceptance that I cannot change my past. I wonder when I will tell my parents, maybe they would understand a few things better.
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[Bidopa]

I feel completely Numb like there's nothing else to do but try and move on with my life. I feel like I don't have any emotions anymore though I did go to therapy to talk about my rape. Numb feels like I'm stuck. I feel like I can wake up every morning put on a good face but in reality it's just a mask because I don't really know how I feel.

 

[Lanafi]

I've experienced longer term numbness. Now, I tend to feel short term numbness. But my emotions aren't attached to the trauma, they are kept quite seperate.

Trauma therapy can help bring the emotion and the experience back together. Perhaps to deal with this specific incident EMDR might help.

 

[Zefa]

I tend to be very matter of fact about my trauma. I was also lost in what I feel. I try to do the what are you feeling post every day so that I can figure out the emotions I'm feeling. Put labels on them. It has helped me some. I have been suggested to go to EMDR, but I chose just regular therapy. We are working on getting those feelings back. Some of it is feeling that I have a right to feel the positive emotions. I think those are the hardest to feel.