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.
