Well, it was something i had to do. The first thing i did was try and shut down my pain. I didnt recognise what had happened to me for what it was, because i had this misconception as a 16 year old that rape was something that happened when a knife wielding, Armed Lunatic would jump out of the bush and attack you, because i was under these impressions from the media, which over report on those crimes when, in actuality, it is as you say so often somebody you know. So i tried to shut down this pain and i became very effective overachiever, because standing still offered too much reflection on the past, which was too painful. Despite me projecting this successful image to the outside i was very much hurting in private and i was numbing my pain with alcohol, self harm, eating disorders and i hit rock bottom at the age of 25 and had long given up the hope of legaljustice because it didnt press charges right away and my perpetrator moved to the other side of the planet. So i needed, nonethe
Well, it was something i had to do. The first thing i did was try and shut down my pain. I didnt recognise what had happened to me for what it was, because i had this misconception as a 16 year old that rape was something that happened when a knife wielding, Armed Lunatic would jump out of the bush and attack you, because i was under these impressions from the media, which over report on those crimes when, in actuality, it is as you say so often somebody you know. So i tried to shut down this pain and i became very effective overachiever, because standing still offered too much reflection on the past, which was too painful. Despite me projecting this successful image to the outside i was very much hurting in private and i was numbing my pain with alcohol, self harm, eating disorders and i hit rock bottom at the age of 25 and had long given up the hope of legaljustice because it didnt press charges right away and my perpetrator moved to the other side of the planet. So i needed, nonethe
Well, it was something i had to do. The first thing i did was try and shut down my pain. I didnt recognise what had happened to me for what it was, because i had this misconception as a 16 year old that rape was something that happened when a knife wielding, Armed Lunatic would jump out of the bush and attack you, because i was under these impressions from the media, which over report on those crimes when, in actuality, it is as you say so often somebody you know. So i tried to shut down this pain and i became very effective overachiever, because standing still offered too much reflection on the past, which was too painful. Despite me projecting this successful image to the outside i was very much hurting in private and i was numbing my pain with alcohol, self harm, eating disorders and i hit rock bottom at the age of 25 and had long given up the hope of legaljustice because it didnt press charges right away and my perpetrator moved to the other side of the planet. So i needed, nonethe