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How trauma changes your relationships with everyone else

I was sexually assaulted six months ago and I am more angry at my friends who do not know how to act around me now than I am at the person who hurt me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Secondary losses of connection and normalcy can sometimes wound us more than the original violation because we expected those people to stay.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.