Category Archives: Flashbacks/Memories

Creative Distraction

Countless hours are spent in therapy, post trauma, learning coping skills for when the PTSD flares. I have done writings, drawings, and craft projects as those wiser than myself try to ingrain in my head, healthy ways of dealing with … Continue reading

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Dissociating the Stories

“The little girl watches from a distance, safely above and beyond reach; the naked woman lays frozen in a death like state while the predator violates her body.” So begins the revealing of an experience of my rape. Being faced with a knife, the threat of rape, … Continue reading

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Shattered Life

I awoke yesterday morning to a flood of intrusive thoughts and physical flashbacks. It is abhorant to feel the malevolent perpetrator. It disgusts and nauseates me, makes my skin crawl as though infested with toxic slime that cannot be rubbed off. My anger escalates … Continue reading

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Short History of Rapes

As my story has remained absent from this blog for now, I feel I need to give you a short background. I was raped by a stranger who followed me into my house when I was carrying in more than … Continue reading

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