I'm frustrated being sexually abused is what led me to the group home. My autistic meltdowns were just so much worse after that I had no choice but to leave my parents' home. I have a bachelor's degree and now I'm just sitting in the group home. I feel like I can't control my emotions. Medication and therapy have been minimally helpful. I was born autistic and I accept that. But the fact that another person's actions did so much harm is something I have a hard time accepting. To make matters worse he was a priest, somebody who I should have been able to trust.
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Empathy Only Experiencing sexual abuse led me to the group home
- Thread starter cev77
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I'm sorry @cev77. This must be terribly difficult. I want you to know I read your post, but I don't know what words to write and I hesitate to say the wrong thing. I hope you're getting some help specifically to heal from exual abuse. I know you wrote that the therapy is minimally helping. Do you have any interest in contacting the uni where you got your degree, perhaps there could be some resources for grads. Just a thought.
I wish that person hadn't hurt you. It makes me angry.
I wish that person hadn't hurt you. It makes me angry.
that's terrible. When I hear about this type of abuse, it makes me want to believe that there is a hell. A special type of hell where people who knowingly abuse their positions of trust, authority, and/or power to hurt vulnerable people for their own sick amusement get to feel what it is like to be one of their own victims - for every single person they've hurt and every single time they hurt them.
The worst part is the hurt that they caused goes on hurting their victims, over and over. It's the victims who end up in hell... the abuse never leaves. Or at least I don't know how to let it go, accept it, nor move on.
IDK. I started to feel safe, and then I broke again.
If I were with you in person I would sit with you silently and listen to what you wanted to say, and offer a shoulder to cry on if you felt safe with that, or just hold my awareness with you if touch would be unhelpful at that point.
However, all I can really say is I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.
The worst part is the hurt that they caused goes on hurting their victims, over and over. It's the victims who end up in hell... the abuse never leaves. Or at least I don't know how to let it go, accept it, nor move on.
IDK. I started to feel safe, and then I broke again.
If I were with you in person I would sit with you silently and listen to what you wanted to say, and offer a shoulder to cry on if you felt safe with that, or just hold my awareness with you if touch would be unhelpful at that point.
However, all I can really say is I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.
@seabird Thank you! I was actually a social sciences major which included psychology classes so that would probably be the right department to help.
@LumberJack Thank you! And I hope you feel safe again as well.
@LumberJack Thank you! And I hope you feel safe again as well.