Recovering From Trauma Doesn’t Happen Overnight

There’s no such thing as failure here

I’ve been doing prolonged exposure therapy for about 7 months now to deal with a sexual assault that happened when I was 13.

I thought I was over it for YEARS. I got into therapy right after it happened, where I was diagnosed with PTSD. At the time, they didn’t know how to handle sexual assault, especially in a young girl, so therapy didn’t exactly help.

The two boys ended up doing the same thing to two other girls. I still regret not…