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LonelyWalker
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Thank you very much for the kind words, ladies! I appreciate the time you took to welcome me here. The forum does look like a good place to find help and support, even though I've only just started to explore it. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to help someone too...
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Hello, Nathalie. I'm very sorry for your trauma, and for the pain you're going through. Hopefully, this forum will help you to find relief. As for repressed memories, I found it useful to write down whatever I remember on separate sheets of paper, and then putting them in a rough chronological order. Once you've written a memory down, it sort of frees some space in your mind, and more can surface. Also, when you're writing down facts, it is easy to draw some conclusions which you cannot see just by having all the memories shuffling chaotically in your head. This is probably not
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Hello, I'm new to this forum, and I came here hoping to find some inspiration and advice. I am 34 now, and I was raped when I was 13. Many things happened since then, and I had therapy, but I've been living with this pain for 21 years. It is a little life, and it hurts to look at this period of time and see it tainted. However, it hurts even more to look forward knowing that the pain will remain with me for however long I'm going to live. There's a saying, 'once a girl has been raped, she cannot be unraped'. However, I still want to find a way to live a happier life, without thi