I keep telling myself that my experience was normal enough, but even amongst this cornucopia of fucked up people, I almost never see anyone talking about it.Where do you even begin with therapy for something like this, when the mere idea of putting your name down for an appointment feels like inviting the one who did it to come take revenge on you for blabbing? When you know you won't be able to talk about it anyway, even if you wanted to?Where do you even begin trying to pursue a romantic relationship when you know the first instance of intimacy is going to send you into a panic? There was a time where I could cover for that shit under guise of being a mousey virgin but that ship has sailed and idk wtf I'm supposed to tell the next person so they don't ask too many questions. And even then, how are you even supposed to even BE in a relationship, if not formfitting yourself around being whatever your partner wants you to be at any given moment to make sure they never even have the opportunity to hurt you?What is love? Baby don't hurt me, unironically.I genuinely feel like I've been mandella effected into a universe where I've been retconned as having gotten molested, it's so fucking weird. Like I always knew what happened, but I avoided thinking about it enough that I never connected it to that word, and now that I have and can see how it connects to the way I am as a person, I can't stop fucking thinking about it and I've forgotten how to fucking function.
>>33853430You can start by having boundaries around sharing and effectively communicating them. For example, "I was molested". They ask a question, "I really don't want to talk about it" or "I don't want to talk about it, can you just comfort me instead". You can even tell therapists you don't want to discuss certain things, after all you're paying themAnd also I'm sorry that happened to you. You can live a successful life despite it and have happy relationships (I have), but it is going to always be with
>>33853430Go molest someone
>>33853430I recommend finding a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma therapty/PTSD. Do not just go to any random counsellor. Everything will get easier I promise.
>>33853430Therapy, you will have to talk about your traumatic experience but then it will be easy
>>33853430Therapy. You can even put off talking about the event itself and start by talking through the ways it has affected you
>>33853430How do you cope with NOT getting molested?I'm a 40 year old virgin because I was so undesirable no one ever touched me :(