Thanks for replying, skeksi. Good to know I'm not alone! Again, I'm glad that your therapist helped, and that's great you've been able to be open about it to your friends. I have no idea how much my friends know - it got quite a lot of media attention at the time, but they would have been too young to watch the news back then (most of my friends were around 6 or 7)...it's still all over the internet, though. I've never been able to talk about it to any of them, although I've come close a few times, and I was asked about it by one of my flatmates last year...that wasn't much fun.

Usually friends, especially ones I haven't known for long. The question of "where are you from?" almost always comes up eventually, and I'm never sure how people will react when I tell them.