Am I over reacting?

So when I was 8 (I’m 17 now) I was photographed by a creep (I was wearing a dress if that explains it) and he was about to take me (he’d followed me to the edge of the crowd we were in) before my dad got to him. And then the same year, I was felt up by a distant relative (a drunk in his 50’s) and his son, but I shut it down before things got worse.

Whenever I experience things that make me uncomfortable and such (like movies that romanticize rape, news articles, rape victims’ testimonies, seeing those certain relatives, etc), I sort of shut down. I can’t let anyone touch me, and I feel unclean. But at the same time, I’m not even considered a victim because nothing happened(or progressed). So am I over reacting? Sometimes I can’t look myself in the mirror, but I’m not even a victim of rape? I’m just so confused, and I was always taught not to be dramatic or be a hypochondriac so I don’t know if I’m just being irrational or if I’m still not okay.

If I’m not okay, what do I do to get better? I’m tired of being sensitive. My mind pushes me to think “if i admit something’s wrong with me, then there will be something wrong with me. And if I don’t say anything, I won’t have a problem”

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