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I was young and naïve, probably below five, because he stopped before I entered secondary school at ten. I was abused by two men – my dad’s step-brother and my neighbor. My dad’s step-brother always visited us and because he was older he helped prepare us for school. While bathing me, he would always rub …
I was 19, just walking home from a friend’s, it was only 11 o’clock at night. It happened so suddenly, I didn’t fight, I just froze. For a long time, I did not know if it was ‘really’ rape, I never said no, I never said anything. It was surreal, it almost felt like I …
I’ve experienced sexual assault several times since 2010 I guess. I don’t actually remember when it started. I’ve got three of my cousins who tried to touch me. One would always say he wanted to massage me. One day he went inside my room while I was studying and like usual, he massaged me. Then …
In listening to a survivor’s story, your response can have an enormous impact on that person’s healing journey. I want to point you to some tools—words, actions, and resources—that can help you support someone who shares their personal experience(s) with you. Although you can never take away what happened to someone, you can be a source of …
When I was 17, I worked at a popular restaurant and I became friends with pretty much everyone. We all talked and hung out, we were all just young kids. Well one of us ended up talking an older person into buying us a bottle of hypnotic and some wine. While we were cleaning up, …
Grounding is a set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain (e.g., drug cravings, self-harm impulses, anger, sadness). Distraction works by focusing outward on the external world, rather than inward toward the self. You can also think of it as “centering,” “a safe place,” “looking outward,” or healthy detachment.” Why do grounding? When you …
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I suffered a similar fate, I was raped in 2012 by my ex. When we were dating, we were virgins and promised each other that we wouldn’t have sex till we get married. She got admission before me in 2011 and went to school, few months later, she called me and broke up with me …
I actually had to hold this to myself all these years, the only person I ever really told this to is my bro and my girlfriend and sadly he was abused by my aunt. Being a guy people don’t feel rape and abuse applies to you but it affects me up to this day. I …
I have had multiple sexual abuse experiences but I will share the first. I must have been 5 years old when it first happened. There was this man who sold ice cream, he always passed by the house where I lived because there were a few children in it. Our parents would always buy ice …
I was 11 or 12 when it happened. I was in secondary school and was a junior student-a stubborn one at that. The perpetrator was a senior student in the same room as me. When it was lights out and I was sleeping, he slipped down from the top bunk and pulled my pants down, …
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