You're definitely right, women can be the predators, it happened with my best friend.

No, it never goes away but it can become bearable through trauma therapy and time. EMDR is useful for this and a newer technique called Brain Spotting has been known to work wonders. You'll always feel it, but it won't be as severe. Like you, I didn't realize what happened to me until it came on very suddenly. I knew it was there but I didn't understand, dots didn't connect and it was shoved to the back of my mind where all the bad things go. It didn't stay there and hit me like a freight train going 80. The longer it stays unaddressed and/or buried, the more difficult it is to get over, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Just makes it a bigger pain in the ***.