News of Rape Trauma

I experienced a very short rape. It was consensual sex with a guy I was dating that turned into rape when he ignored my safe word. He eventually did stop after I protested a lot.

After a month and a half I felt over it. Very confused about why I had such good chemistry with him and then he decided to do that. Also confused by the fact that I wanted to have sex with ...

My partner of two years, Cas and I have been essentially living together for three months and sleeping together nearly every night for a year or so. Very early on in our relationship, Cas revealed to me that they had been raped multiple times by an ex-boyfriend. I am a survivor of sexual abuse myself, so there were a lot of obstacles we had to overcome to have a healthy relationship, sexual or otherwise. Cas ...

How do you manage the nightmares?

Mine are currently so intrusive just now. They're always worse this time of year. Some are very graphic and afterwards it feels as though I have relived the r all over again.... There are so many bad memories and the nightmares often overlap. It feels too real.

Any suggestions would be appreciated please

Hi everyone,

I'm just...having a bad day a little bit. 3 years ago I started dealing with what happened to me(about year and a half after I had been raped). That was a very dark time with PTSD, anxiety, depression and just bad, bad time...But I have slowly, in different multiple steps made my life a lot better, eventually.
I'm still working on it, of course, but at this point, I just get a panic ...

I just spoke to my mom and I asked her for the insurance info so i could book a therapy appointment since i'm no longer on my bipolar medication. And i've never taken meds for PTSD.

I know that i'm not okay. And maybe I need someone to help me lessen these feelings.

I've done EMDR therapy inpatient before and its the only kind of therapy thats ever even remotely helped me so i'm looking ...

Hello,

So I feel like this is the best place to start for me. I posted over in the OCD threads but never got a response so I wondered if here might be a better place. Here is my original post from that thread:

I'm a 23 year old female in a loving relationship of 3.5 years with the guy of my dreams. I've always identified, been interested in, chased after boys my whole life. ...

I'm very new to this and just feel like I need to ge this off my chest. It's been almost a year and I feel silly for still dwelling on it. I don't mean to dwell but it makes it difficult when I have the same nightmare every night. I was raped by an old aquaintance and it really took me by surprise. I haven't told anyone about it and I thought that I would ...

I had something new happen and i wish to understand why, how and what purpose this serves.

I have only started venturing to the dating and sexual contact thing recently, i had no sexual experience when raped and have shied away since.

I am at a point where i don't as such run scared from my own demons, i will tackle them head on and have a bit of a "screw you" attitude to my ...

I'm a teen and I was raped by my only friend starting at the age of 6 and ending at 14. I have been told that I "made it up" to get noticed. This has resulted in me having DID and PTSD. As well as the mental, physical, and emotional abuse I have gone though. This is my screwed up story. just thought it'd be good for someone to know.

I'm a rape survivor myself and recently I joined a charity that ends sex trafficking for young girls.

These girls (usually about 13-16 years old) have gone through what is basically rape every night of their lives for years and years. A lot of them having went to police for help and ended up in jail because the police consider them to be prostitutes, when in actuality they are victims.

I have only been raped ...