Group member past and present oppression can, at times, be grounds for conflict between the women due to believing that another members have not experience her specific traumatic experience such as those who have been participated of prostitution. For example, Phyllis has been prostituting since she was 11-years-old in order to support her in obtaining food, shelter, and drugs. At the age of 22-years-old she contracted the HIV/AIDS virus from one of the men she dated. As a result, she has been ostracized by family and friend resulting in her becoming more emerged in her substance use and attempting suicide numerous times. For that reason, the other women criticize her because they cannot relate to how she contracted the virus. Since most of
