How do you get over being a rape victim?
12 Answers to "How do you get over being a rape victim?"
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Take a lot of time to be good to yourself, find help if you need it, learn to let go in small bits until your sense of safety returns. It's not an easy thing to.
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I would seriously DOUBT any lady would ever get over this
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Forgive yourself...you did nothing to deserve that. Other than that, I don't know.
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You get a lot of help from other people- ones who understand. Learn what you did to cope, learn that that's okay, and get support- rape crisis centers have great (free) resources.
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You change the way you look at the situation.
I had to decide that I had survived. Then I found a therapist who helped me reclaim that part of myself I felt had been taken from me - to become whole, again.
I refused to allow this person to have or hold any more of my life than he had already claimed. Time and distance allowed me to reclaim my body and my spirit again.
It takes effort AND it's worth all the time and energy you are willing and able to put into it!!!!Like (1)
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I have a little girl as a result of the rape... And she is my world... I just don't know how to feel emotionally anymore...Like (1)
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I don't know that I could have made the same decisions you did - I needed to do what I did to get to where I am now. May I suggest that you find a good therapist that help you sort out all the different elements you are dealing with.
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I don't think that it is something you ever "get over". For me there was a moment when I realized that I wasn't going to let him take anything more from me. He stole my innocence and my childhood but I refuse to let him break me. I am a survivor, not a victim and so are you. You survived and you are reaching out, processing what happened, working through it. That is something to be so very proud of, a lot of people aren't able to do that.
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Don't be a victim....be a survivor....it's all in your mindset...
but I'm not sure we ever get over it...it's always there...you can learn to move past it, though, and not let it govern your lifeLike (1)
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You should get professional help with it and reach out to other victims and express yourself.
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Sorry to be rude but what type of rape victim? Child rape, date rape, gang rape or like dragged down an alley and beaten and raped rape? They all need different forms of help.
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I was drugged at a party and was beaten and raped. It does not matter what rape it is. the fact that the rape happened!
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Eventually come to the conclusion that he is the one with the problem.That is what helped me.
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The first thing is to call yourself a survivor, not a victim.
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Posted by vickieprince 1 Feb 20th, 2013 at 2:51PM
Stop thinking of yourself as a victim and more of a survivor....I have been there sweetie
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Reply by NedKelly1 Feb 20th, 2013 at 2:51PM
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