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Old Sep 09, 2013, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Pfrog View Post
I had vivid & recurrent dreams, nightmares & night terrors about all the sexual abuse I was subjected to while growing up.

Not until I started dealing with it in therapy as an adult did those dreams, nightmares & night terrors vanish. Of course, they'll occasionally resurface now, usually when something triggers me, and I'll have to work through them all over again.

It was quite a bewildering experience then, but as an adult who's now got years of therapy behind her, I don't find them as powerful and disturbing as they once were.



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