Link – Older People Surviving Child Sexual Abuse
“You may be a survivor of child sexual abuse who is now in your late thirties, forties, fifties or beyond, and you may be finding that your feelings around what you experienced are worse than they have ever been, or at any rate worse that they’ve been for a long time. You may be confused as to why this is happening now. Life changing events such as medical scares, dying abusers, bereavement, retrenchment and ill spouses are things older survivors must often contend with. You may not expect such events to have triggered off earlier trauma, and you may be shocked and frightened by the strength of nightmares, flashbacks and other symptoms.
Or perhaps there’s no precipitating event you can pinpoint as starting it all, but you’ve found that you suddenly can’t stop thinking about what happened when you were younger. It may be that you’ve retired, your kids have left home and life has fewer extraneous distractions. This can be a time when traumatic issues begin to clamour for attention.”
I hear from folks all the time who are adults, and find themselves suddenly trying to deal with what happened to them as children. This doesn’t happen the same way for every survivor, but if you find yourself in this situation, there is some good information in this article.
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@SurvivorNetwork Always well-curated info for survivors here. Thank you!
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I went to see the movie “Eye in the Sky” last night …….powerfully heart wrenching ………………..My first thoughts were….. I wonder if Alan Rickman was murdered? ………….Not because he is known for expressing his dislike for the military and how some people in some governments think they are God ………but because there were some subliminal messages ( maybe not so subliminal ) in the movie to or about a sex offender ! …….It is interesting how our culture has the balls to go after the priests and some actors and some school teachers and coaches for being sexual predators but I have yet to see any one go after a political figure if he is high up in the hierarchy of this government and it is because they will kill you and your family if you don’t keep your mouth shut and get away with it ….so here’s my prayer , Dear God give us some balls , Amen ……….Thank you……..
…these sexual predators who are high up in the hierarchy of this government also will destroy anyone who exposes them by messing with their job , making them look crazy and not credible , getting them addicted to heroin so they can’t function at all (one of their favorite), making them look like a terrorist and messing with them to the point they commit suicide (another favorite) ………….in the human development of cleverness and manipulation they excel , but in the human development of compassion for others and empathy they are retarded ………..so they are a weird and rather complex group with a lot of power to expose so it is not easy if you want to stay alive and or keep a job ……….So Dear God ,those of us who have been abused by someone of this caliber need all the help we can get …………
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Needed. This thank you x
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As a twice survivor of sexual abuse, rampant depression, and survivor of a suicide attempt, I do identify with this. Thanks for sharing. This is important that people know healing can begin at any age.
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I found that having children of my own re-openned that door and put the whole thing in an even uglier perspective.
Is it because your afraid they will get abused too i go through that a lot its horrible.
thats not it so much. I have taught my boys a fierce sence of self defense and educated them about being aware of peoples intentions at all times. And they are inseperable. What overtook me was the pain of realizing how bad it really was — how could a parent ever love their child and treat them that way. That heartbreak was more real when I experienced first-hand the intensity and depth of your love for your own child.
this is good but how far can you help
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