Sexual abuse......overwhelming fear.

I told my therapist about being molested at 11, she had to report it, the cops came yesterday, and i finally had to tell my parents. It's been 5 long years, i'm 16, the age he was when it happened. Now it's haunting me more then ever. I'm scared now, because he knows i told. I have irrational fears that he's hiding in my house waiting to kill me, and if not somehow he'll get in and hurt me or kill me. I'm afraid his family will harass me. I'm sure the charges will be dropped but it will obviously affect his life whether or not he get's in trouble. I'm just so afraid, i don't even want to go outside, he might shoot me. Does everyone feel like this?

I'm proud of you for telling your therapist. Yes everyone feels like that. I was 5 when my own abuse happened and 28 when I finally told someone and I felt that same fear.

Well done for getting the courage to speak about it- that is a major step!

Yes I've felt that way, even though I did not fear of someone coming after me, well I did but I was abused by boyfriends/friends/co-workers... Healing takes time and you've already started to take that step.

Your fears are normal, I know they are scary, but we've all felt like that, and we are safe... Hang in there.