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Originally Posted by Paige008
I feel like I've done something wrong, like I've broken a rule. I'm embarrassed to go and see her again, or to ever talk about it again. Ever since I talked about it last week, I've had nothing but flashbacks and smells and nightmares. I'm afraid of everything, jumping at the slightest sound, and obsessing over being followed.
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This is how I am after tell parts of my story, too. I think part of it is, as Sannah said, being programmed not to talk about the abuse out of fear and shame. The nice thing is, the more you talk about it, the less intense those feelings and trauma symptoms will be. You will get to a point where you can talk about the abuse and not experience a recurrence of the trauma symptoms. The trauma will become a bad memory, but not a present danger.
It was awesomely brave of you to take the risk of sharing your story with your T. Good job.