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Originally Posted by darkside8
understand the effects of a childhood with CSA - this one makes me slightly curious as this was a childhood experience of mine, however, as far as I can tell, though it was a significant childhood experience, I didn’t feel, nor do I feel any trauma related effects. Have never brought this up with T or discussed with anyone really. I wonder if it plays any role in my mental health even though it isn’t an experience that I found necessarily traumatic. Just simply prefer not to think about.
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I think two things: 1) not all CSA is traumatic; kids can certainly have experiences in childhood and everybody can define them for themselves whether it's CSA and/or whether it's traumatic. But 2) I have found that dealing with anything I'd prefer to avoid (and I am a big avoider) provides benefits as opposed to continuing to avoid it, no matter what the thing is.
But my childhood CSA was definitely traumatic to me, so I see my own experience within that lens.