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I was also abused

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I just thought I would share my story. It is not that great but this is something that I need to do. I was sexually abuse when I was 5. I had emotional problem as a result of the abuse. I was raped by my uncle 2 years ago. I have not been able to trust people. I go to therapy but I can't even trust her. I have been put in a psychiatric hospital because I had an ED and cut myself. I am now have depression, and anxiety disorder, I am still trying to recover from cutting myself, I am still struggling with an ED. I also have recurent dreams about the abuse. I don't know how to deal with the dreams. Thanks for listening. God Bless
 

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Have you tried to pray for peace for a good night's sleep? I had to do that alot but I had reoccurring nightmares about the abuse but woke up feeling like my head would explode. I kept having dreams of being thrown through a glass window and my head breaking the glass and I'd cometo out on the grass. Also had recurring pieces of memories of the sexual abuse from when I was a child. I kept praying that God would hold me and I would talk to him because something is making me terrified but I had pieces of memories. I know it takes time, and I still would sleepwalk and try to get away from someone. Are you trying to fight remembering the abuse or do you go ahead and allow yourself the memory? Sometimes fighting the memory makes it worse.
 
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Hey Pentacostalgirl


:prayer: praying that you and everyone else who is struggling with sleep can actually get a good night's sleep :prayer:

Dear Lord,

I want to thank you for the faith you have kept shining in all of your children who are going thru such a rough time atm with dealing with the atrocities of the abuse that they endured and lord I ask that they might be able to get a good night's sleep and dream happy thought and know they are safe instead of waking up fearful of memories that happened to them because dreams are figments of our imagination but they seem so real. I also ask that this forum continue to grow and be supported by CF and the ppl who need it. I ask this in Jesus's name Amen.


- Shaz
 
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I understand, PentecostalGirl, but only to a point. Bless you, you can get beyond this, to the point at which it will not be a constant battle. I know. I am not going to say that you will forget it or that it will cease effecting you, because I don't know that personally; it's just that you will move on and away from this, if that is your choice.
 
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