Not wanting to talk about SA with non-survivors?
This might be a very weird question, but I was wondering if anyone else feels uncomfortable discussing their story with people who haven’t experienced SA, or even people who have, but experienced a very different reality?
I felt like I can’t talk about it abstractly with friends (I’d never give someone details, because it feels non-consensual to dump that on someone), because they just jump to fill things in or make me feel better… but I also can’t talk about it when I went to group therapy (healing after SA), because everyone’s stories seemed so different or so much worse.
Overall, I feel so desperate to tell someone and have someone else carry this with me, but I’m just stuck between thinking it’s too awful to say and not bad enough to grieve. I know theres probably a lot of reasons why, but I guess right now I just want to know if it’s a NORMAL or common feeling?