I think I'll talk to my therapist about trying that. Thank you so much, you have no idea how much this helps.
You're the bomb, Sam W. <3

Honestly the thing I'm most afraid of is that I'm going to be validated again. And I guess that does mean I'm afraid of panic attacks at that point. But mainly just that it's going to happen again, and that I'm not going to be able to stop it this time

It does. See, that's the weird thing: physical contact with friends is totally ok with me, and I do enjoy that. I think that doing those exercises remind me of the incident a bit. I'm a stage actress, and that's how the guy and I met, we were playing opposite of one another onstage. Since then, I ha...

Hi Sam, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly I do often have trouble trusting friends. Not so much in the sense of sharing secrets, telling them things, but definitely in the physical sense. I've done those trust exercises that people often do in leadership training (having someone lead you arou...

Hi Scarleteen, I've been using your site for a while as a means to get the queer sex ed training that I wasn't getting in my school's health classes. But I'm at a weird point right now. When I was a young teen, I was emotionally manipulated by an older guy, who attempted to molest me multiple times....