Yes, I think so. I had one incident in my life of abuse. Once was enough. I tried to say something once after it happened but it was brushed off so I didn't say anything for a long time because I felt bad and blamed myself and didn't know what to think of it, etc. Then slowly I started telling people many years later - just that I had been abused no details - and it lost some of it's power. For the first time I wrote out the incident in more detail and shared it with my therapist and psychiatrist this past year and that made me feel more powerful and less like a victim. I'm not sure I could actually say out loud in detail what happened, but I am much stronger now and I don't feel like the abuse controls me or holds so much influence in my life.

I don't see myself going into detail with anyone other than the t and pdoc in the future and I've past the point now where I feel compelled to tell.