Rape can happen to any woman. It has a serious impact on mental health. Psychologists have found that it is normal for this trauma to last for a year.
Instructions
Step 1
Try to pull yourself together and try to eliminate the consequences. It is necessary to seek help from the police in the form in which the offender left you. When he is caught and punished, you will surely feel better and calmer.
Step 2
Visit your gynecologist as soon as possible, because you may be pregnant. Now there are drugs that interrupt pregnancy with a single dose within 24 hours after its onset. If more time has passed, then turn to other methods of terminating an early pregnancy.
Step 3
In the early stages of the experience, be sure to seek support from family and friends, do not hide from them. Pay it out, speak it out in front of them.
Step 4
If you don't do this and shut yourself off from everyone, it can seriously interfere with your future ability to build close relationships. But sooner or later you will want to start living again as a normal woman.
Step 5
Do not blame yourself for what happened, because it could happen to every woman. Constantly tell yourself that this is an absurd accident. You don't have to remember your past sins and conclude that you deserve such a punishment.
Step 6
Feelings of guilt will prevent you from regaining your mental balance and will break you. Therefore, stop in time and try to fill the inner void. Get carried away with any activity.
Step 7
One of the stages of experiencing mental trauma is aggression, so it is recommended to take out negative energy. The best way is to do sports. If you direct all your strength towards this type of activity, you will eventually get rid of unpleasant memories.
Step 8
Find a thematic support group in rehabilitation centers, attend the meetings of this group. This will give you the opportunity to be listened to, get good advice and just relax a little. Sometimes speaking in front of strangers is much easier.
Step 9
Every person has psychological defense mechanisms, mature and immature. Denying what happened is a childish and non-constructive way of protecting yourself. To get rid of the pain, you need to experience the event.
Step 10
Don't try to find the reasons for what happened, just accept it and let it go. There are a huge number of trainings and psychotechniques that help to overcome pain and resentment.
Step 11
When you can look at a situation as a specific experience and learn from it, it will no longer have dominion over you.
