"I've just learned to accept it and I thought that's just how I was" quote yeliab

You know what? I thought this too, I thought that many of the things I have felt or ways I responded was just "how I am as a person". I really never realized how much of who I am is a result of how I adapted to "abuse". I also felt that when I experienced bad things, I got over it, it was something I survived and moved on from.
I never realized how much it hurt my perception on things.

A lot of people are extremely uncomfortable discussing any sexual abuse they suffered. They feel that somehow they are at fault and that it is better to just hide it, lock it away and not talk about it. And they don't want anyone to know how they struggle to trust being able to be intimate, better left unsaid, too hard to explain, easier to pretend somehow.

Getting up the courage to finally talk about it is the beginning of finally understanding the damage and the beginning to healing.

Open Eyes