Rape Support Group
If you or someone you know has been the victim of rape, this is the place to find support and get advice. If you want, discuss your experience, share your feelings, and meet others going through a similar situation.
My virginity, innocence, spark of life, and sense of self was torn away from me when I was barely 14. I won't go into details, but it was very bad year filled with horrible things. I was able to break away but even though it wasn't there any more it was ALWAYS there. Years I went on living this way... I guess I slowly started to reject those thoughts, deny them even.
I live today going weeks without it ever coming up (minus the usual triggers - tv or news) but do my best to block them
So here's the real problem now. I am so good at getting rid of these thoughts that they spill into every day life. Pay bills. Pick up the yard, have that phone conversation with my mom. I mean to do it I simply forget! I've got a big white board I write all my to-dos on but even that fails.
I just wonder... Anyone else have such a problem with daily living and remembering?
I live today going weeks without it ever coming up (minus the usual triggers - tv or news) but do my best to block them
So here's the real problem now. I am so good at getting rid of these thoughts that they spill into every day life. Pay bills. Pick up the yard, have that phone conversation with my mom. I mean to do it I simply forget! I've got a big white board I write all my to-dos on but even that fails.
I just wonder... Anyone else have such a problem with daily living and remembering?
Yes, like you I was also raped at 14 and like me, I cannot go into too much detail on what happened to me. My lastest post was as much detail as I can give, but my attacks afterwards got a hell of a lot worse than that and it is best for it to be unsaid.
I have a post on here about memory loss or blocking, you should have a read by the helpful posts on there. It helped me a lot.
Everyday life? Of course. I am forgetting such simple things and it upsets me to say, but I have forgotten how to spell as English is my favorite subject. I am forgetting words I have learnt recently and how to use basic maths. To do simple house chores and so forth.
I do have that problem also.
Forgetting things on a daily basis is a sign of stress, and it's not good for when you get older as it leads to dementia.
How to prevent that is to do simple brain exercises. Like those hide and seek computer games and the likes of candy crush saga.
Reading. Do a lot of reading. Cross words and so forth.
I am so sorry to hear what happened to you and the after effects that come with it. Have you gone to councelling yet? Or a local support group in your area to meet people like you?