Posted 8/8/2014 11:23 PM (GMT 0)
I'm only recently (as in, today was my 4th visit with my therapist) acknowledged the abuses I experienced as a child, and among them is sexual abuse. This was how I learned, in an official capacity, that I have PTSD, and all of my hitherto unexplained and often bizarre behaviour, were linked.
Mind you, I've been stuffing this down for decades and only very, very recently come to acknowledge these events.
As a noobie to this, I can relate in the sense that,--regardless of what the traumas were,--we're not always sharing with the world in abundance, just what they are and what our triggers are. Even if we do share triggers, I've found they get minimized and downplayed and we're written off as just being too sensitive.
These are often private matters, and much of the turmoil comes from how we deal with it.
I'd also encourage seeing a therapist who specializes in this because,....I can say with such earnest,....that their approach is phenomenally different!!
M.