TW rape and sexual assault

[OneAvidAmberLion]

I need help. I'm not dealing with this well. I don't know how I'm actually meant to be handling things.

Please can you tell me what helped you most with recovery.

Rape Crisis's online chat has been useful, but I can only use that occasionally and I'm just going over the same things. I need to move forward as I feel totally stuck and I'm sick of the impact this is having on my life.

For me it was finally facing it after years of denial that it happened. Accepting that it was that bad, and all the little things I said in my brain to make it better and make it go away weren’t true. I wasn’t a liar. It was real. Looking at it truthfully and accepting that it was horrendous and I was allowed to take time to heal. Then it was gradual from there.

Thank you. I'm on the verge of acceptance, I think. Some days I do accept events, others I don't. I think I'll get there and, like you said, it should help me.

I had talking therapy with a charity for SA and rape survivors and after 6 months they offered me hypnotherapy. It absolutely changed my life