Is it possible I have PTSD? Even after 8 years?
When I was 10 I was sexually assaulted by my best friends uncle and then sexually assault for weeks by a different guy 2 years later. I’d say I’ve healed from the first time, but the second time it happened really really traumatized me.
This is a small list of what I’ve experienced since:
1. For years I’ve experienced nightmares. II’m always being sexually assault in them and nobody can get to me to help or they know and they just don’t care enough to help. I always wake up cry.
2. When I was sexually assaulted the second time I was kept from leaving the room and blocked from the door, and when someone else did that (we were just being stupid) there was this moment where I panicked. It felt like I was back in that room with my abuser.
3. I doctor had to press down on my lower abdomen and him getting so close to my groin caused me to panic. I immediately sat up and he had to calm me down to get me to lay back down but I was so afraid and it was so hard to calm my mind.
4. I don’t like when other people share my abusers name or when they look like him. It makes me uncomfortable and it bothers me.
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