I have ghosts...I think we all do, whether dealing with PD's or not.....but I totally get what has been said in this thread....from a slightly bent standpoint. There was a thing that happened to me when I was a teenager (non sexual) that involved my step-father and I've told a couple people about it. Not deliberately, but we'd get into discussions of our pasts, etc. Never fails, the way I've told it is just matter of fact. My friends, those I've told always, to a person, look horrified as I describe it and I don't use over the top language...just...this happened and this happened.

To me it is just in the past and I've either dealt with it or buried the terror of it so deep it's just a 'thing' now, and of no consequence. But I've stopped telling people about it. They don't seem to be able to handle it, and that just makes me feel weirder than I already feel.