6 Telling the story saves others.
When something bad happens, it is natural to want to warn others, so that they can avoid it. This is a good intention. It is definitely helpful to let people know some practical advise, to protect their drinks from being spiked, avoid certain dating procedures or apps...
3 ‘Telling the story is necessary for healing’
While there is such a lot of stigma and shame involved in letting people know you were sexually assaulted, due to worries about judgement and what people might think, it requires a lot to speak up on the matter. Being able to speak about it, has a place, especially if...
2 ‘The best you can do is become a survivor’.
Being a victim has a stigma attached to it that no one wants to carry. In a culture and medical model that has no belief or effective therapeutic modalities to recovery, the deep conflicts left by sexual assault, in the mind and body of the person involved, the only...
