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This is my first post on this site.  I survived being sexually abused by my father.  The abuse started around the age of five and continued until I was 17.  Being threatened that I'd be killed and that my mother, sisters and brother would all go into a situation with no money, or all of us being sent to foster care kept me quiet.  My mother, who worked, didn't seem to have a clue what was going on.  I left home the day after I turned 18, married my husband and started a "real" life.  For almost 20 years I told myself that I was okay, but I wasn't.  I started with a therapist, which helped a little but it wasn't until about 2 years later, lots of anti-depressants, which I am still on, that I finally found out about EMDR.  This is a process kind of like bio feedback.  It worked for me and made me a whole person.  I was told by one Dr. that due to the years of abuse, that my seratonin levels would never be like a normal person, so I take medication and probably always will.   

If you haven't found the right therapist, keep looking and ask about EMDR.