I was sexually abused on many occasions by my ex - this happened over 10 years ago but I am only recently starting to think about/accept what happened, having blocked a lot of it out.
Some of it is very upsetting to think about, and I am finding that I am not sleeping very well, feeling am generally more anxious than usual and am getting flashbacks.
I have spoken to someone at my local rape counselling centre and they suggested that counselling might be helpful to me. I hate talking about what happened to me - but she said that I would not have to talk about anything that I wasn't comfortable talking about. But thinking about what she said, if that is true, and I wouldn't have to talk about what happened - then what would I talk about? What would the point of counselling be?
DH also thinks counselling might be helpful for me, but I'm not sure?
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Rape counselling - can counselling be helpful even if I don't want to talk about what happened?
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beth12345 · 11/10/2012 23:59
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