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“You may be\u00a0a survivor of child sexual abuse who is now\u00a0in your late thirties,\u00a0forties, fifties or beyond,\u00a0and 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\u00a0are things older survivors must\u00a0often contend with. You may not expect such events to have triggered off earlier trauma, and you\u00a0may be shocked and frightened by the strength of nightmares, flashbacks and other symptoms.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps there’s no precipitating event\u00a0you can pinpoint as starting it all,\u00a0but 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Older People Surviving Child Sexual Abuse<\/a><\/p>\n

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