Hi all,
I'm new here so please bear with me. i'm looking for resources i guess. I've got a history of sadistic prolonged sexual abuse, and the body memories i'm dealing with leave me feeling like i'm being raped all over again. the only way i can get these sensations to stop is through some form of self injury. But it seems all of the resources i've found deal only with the emotional aspects of self harm. Does anybody really get that it isn't always emotional, there are physical elements? I've been into every site i can find; read every book i can find on every connection between somatic memory / sexual abuse / self injury, and none of it seems to apply to me.
I am seeing a therapist. She's good, but some of this is new for her as well. Suggestions, anybody? Resources i might have missed?
Thanx!