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How shame about trauma response affects therapy

I want to do EMDR for my rape but I'm scared my therapist will judge me because I never reported it and it happened ten years ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cultural narratives about how victims should behave create additional layers of self-judgment that complicate healing.

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