Overcoming Traumas

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The longer you wait, the more difficult it becomes.
Facing the realtive who physically abused you when you were a child is everyday reality of thousands of girls. And it is astonishing how little it is talked about. This subject needs to be discussed publically, so that who suffer silently for many years can overcome this trauma.
It all started when i was 11 or 12. That time I didn't know what it was but it was really weird. It was too young to understand then. It's been years... Now, that I am grown up, we never talk. I'll not mention that person's name, since I don't know if it's right to blame him. Whether it was the conversation or his touch or the gestures, it traumatized me. Whenever I saw him I shivered with fear and ran away but I wasn't

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