challengessurvivor
Challenges for Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Often met with disbelief by friends and family
- Face accusations of "false reporting"
- Keeping up with school, work and other life responsibilities
- PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety and Eating Disorders
- Many barriers for reporting
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- Fear of perpetrator
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- Fear of others not believing you
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- Fear of losing friends and loved ones
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- Having to face talking about/reliving experience
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- Have trouble identifying the experience as Rape
