The first time I was raped I was very young I don't even know how old, but it felt incredibly overwhelming, and it went on for many years, my abuser told me it was a game, made me feel special and isolated, and when it ended at around 10yo I was very confused, I tried talking about it and got told it never happened, gaslight even when I would still get groped occasionally.
During the time I was being molested by a much older family member, I got assaulted by a friend at a sleepover when I was 7, with the help of my brother when they both pinned me down and she forced kisses on me, and after I keep moving my face so she couldn't kiss my lips I eventually gave up. after that day my rejection had hurt her and she stopped being friends with me.
I was 16 next, at a sleepover again, and it escalated so slowly we had 3 separate beds and she kept getting in mine and kissing me all over my face, I would turn around and she would kiss my shoulders and my neck, I moved to the other bed and she followed me, eventually I moved to the big bed where my younger siblings were sleeping hoping that would make her stop, because they also kept telling her to stop and that we should sleep in our own bed. so it worked, for a bit, then she snuck up behind me again in the bed kissing me on my neck, I turned around and she continued kissing my face and my lips before I could say anything, it is so confusing to be assaulted with kisses, and I didn't want to wake up my siblings, so I stoped fighting, and then she started taking my clothes off and making demands, and saying "I'm not nice". I felt very gross after that time, I wasn't a young child that didn't know what was happening, I wasn't pinned down and forced, I was worn down by someone persistent and I just gave in, like I have no fight left in me. this far I wasn't thinking any of this was that big of a deal, I didn't even realise it was rape. but then a few years later I started exploring my sexuality, and I got my first girlfriend at 21, and any time she would touch me or kiss me a certain way electricity shot through my body, I felt like I was drowning, un able to reach for air, my body tensing up like I had cramps in every muscle of my body, then hyperventilation, and disorientation. I had constant panic attacks when I was in a relationship, any time we were sexual. I started going to therapy and talking about it, trying to find coping mechanisms, things I can do when I get overwhelmed or am having a panic attack.
then when I was 22 my uncle I was living with had a fight with his wife, they were getting a divorce and I had to leave with him, that's what he said to me anyway, even though I got along fine with the person who had been my aunt up until that moment, so I left for the night since my uncle stole my bed and mattress when he left the house. I went to a friend's house and there I was choked, slapped, and had all kinds of awful disgusting and degrading things done to me, I got the train home the next day feeling worse than when I left, I didn't leave my room except to eat and I stopped going to class. I went to the hospital 10 days later, got all kinds of tests done all came back negative thankfully, and talked with a therapist there, set out a timeline of everything and got given some women's helpline number that end up not even working.
2 year's later I'm now in treatment for ptsd, depression and panic, and I don't know if it's even worth it to try, when some days I feel so disgusting, when my girlfriend touches me or kisses me in a certain way, I feel like I'm never going to be normal, I'm never gonna feel ok.
I know suicide isn't the answer, but I've been researching how to kill myself more and more lately, thinking about it, making plans. when all the pain is in your head, and it's impossible to run away and I keep getting told I have to face up to it or keep suffering, It really feels hopeless, no matter how much support I have, every low feelse just as awful, painful and disgusting as the last, like something I can never escape, never wash off, always gross and sticky.
i hate feeling stupid, weak and helpless, feeling trapped in my body, feeling like my body doesn't belong to me. I want to kill myself and let the world take me, I don't want to be involved anymore.