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[ArabellaStrange]

I was pretty much date raped on Saturday. I had a trip booked for this week, to Berlin, with my university course, for some unintelligible reason, I thought that going would be helpful and I have spent a lot of money on it.
So now here I am in Berlin and a slightly snarky comment from the person I am sharing a room with has basically sent me into a bit of an emotional melt down.
Just wandering if there are any German speakers out there who could track down.a, rape crisis centre for me, where they might speak english?
I am probably going to fly back to England tomorrow so it isn't desperately urgent.

Yes I agree. Back in the uk but utterly utterly drained. Really want to just spend the weekend in bed but with a RaG event that I am organising (!) for Monday and an essay due next week it's not going to be possible.
I am trying to put what happened away, it's a tiny tiny event that happened in the grand scheme of things and I don't see why I can't just shut it in a little box inside me. I will see how I feel in the morning,
Thank you for listening.

Get a good night's sleep and have a nice breakfast tomorrow, in bed if you can. Then take the time to think.

I never reported mine. I'm old enough that the concept of 'date rape' didn't exist when it happened to me. I didn't want it and hated it, but never thought that it might be a crime because I knew him, I was on a date with him. It must have been something that I did to encourage him. I'm so glad times have changed.

So yes, you can nominally 'put it behind you'. You can shut it in a little box. But it doesn't always stay there, unfortunately. It can 'pop out' at very inconvenient times and affect your relationships in a negative way. So, even if you decide not to report this to the police, consider some counseling to help you put a strong lock on that little box so that it stays locked up.

Best wishes to you.

I went to the dr today as I don't see the next two weeks of the module we are doing being something I can cope with right now. He really laid into me about reporting and why I wasn't going to do it.
It was quite frankly horrible.

I think you may hear a lot of that. But bottom line is that it is your decision. You are the one that must live with it, not them. Just be judicious with whom you share.