What if one day, you wake up at the age of 40, and up until that day, you had honestly for 26 years not known you were raped every week for two years? What if from the end of the abuse, right up until that day, you had no memories, all you could remember […]

  On the 12th October 2018, I was raped. On the 12th October 2018, I was sexually assaulted. People don’t like ‘the R word’, but changing the wording doesn’t change what happened. It doesn’t make what happened any less horrific. When I mention the word rape, people wince and frown, as if it is a […]

For the last 2 years I have visited various message boards and online groups reading peoples stories about CSA and realising that I have not been alone. Often reading them in tears, they have also provided me with a huge comfort and I realise the importance of sharing them to help other survivors and victims. […]

It was 2011, and after a few visits to my psychiatrist, the unbelievable happened. I was taken to the treatment room, and physically examined, where he exposed my genitals, examining me around them. All I can remember was, please don’t touch me. I didn’t try to stop him, and looking back, the guilt and disgust […]