What Is Sexual Abuse?
Sexual abuse come in many forms includeing someone touching your private parts or making you touch theirs. It can also include rape, or other things that make you feel uncomfortable (e.g. making sexual comments about you or 'perving' at you in a sexual way, making you watch them touch themselves, rubbing their body against you in a sexual way, trying to tongue kiss you, or making you look at sexual pictures or videos).
Remember
The first thing to remember is that it isn't your fault, no matter what. The abuser is always responsible for the abuse. It's very hard to know what to do when someone hurts you like this. It doesn't make you a bad person, and you don't deserve to be treated in this way. Unfortunately, many children and young people experience sexual abuse. It's against the law for ANYONE to treat you like this.
Steps To Working It Out
-Step One: Understand The Problem
-Find out what abuse/sexual abuse
-Understand it is not your fault
-Understand how it can affect you
-TELL SOMEONE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
-Step Two: Find Out What You Can Do
-Learn different ways of dealing with the feelings you are left with
-Read true stories of other victims and how they got through it
-Think about who you can talk to to get help or more information
-Find a helpline for ideas
-Find out how the LAW can help
-Step Three: Choose Action
-Get HELP and get SAFE
-Take it one step at a time
-DON'T GO THROUGH THIS ALONE-find someone to help you
-If the step you tried didn't help then DON'T GIVE UP. Go back and look at more options to help you, and choose a different route.
Remember going through these steps takes time. Getting therapy or another form of counseling WILL help, at first it may seem like it's not, but sexual abuse can cause a great deal of harm, and it might take a while to accept what happened and start the recovery process, be patient. YOU WILL GET BETTER with the right help.
Sexual abuse come in many forms includeing someone touching your private parts or making you touch theirs. It can also include rape, or other things that make you feel uncomfortable (e.g. making sexual comments about you or 'perving' at you in a sexual way, making you watch them touch themselves, rubbing their body against you in a sexual way, trying to tongue kiss you, or making you look at sexual pictures or videos).
Remember
The first thing to remember is that it isn't your fault, no matter what. The abuser is always responsible for the abuse. It's very hard to know what to do when someone hurts you like this. It doesn't make you a bad person, and you don't deserve to be treated in this way. Unfortunately, many children and young people experience sexual abuse. It's against the law for ANYONE to treat you like this.
Steps To Working It Out
-Step One: Understand The Problem
-Find out what abuse/sexual abuse
-Understand it is not your fault
-Understand how it can affect you
-TELL SOMEONE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
-Step Two: Find Out What You Can Do
-Learn different ways of dealing with the feelings you are left with
-Read true stories of other victims and how they got through it
-Think about who you can talk to to get help or more information
-Find a helpline for ideas
-Find out how the LAW can help
-Step Three: Choose Action
-Get HELP and get SAFE
-Take it one step at a time
-DON'T GO THROUGH THIS ALONE-find someone to help you
-If the step you tried didn't help then DON'T GIVE UP. Go back and look at more options to help you, and choose a different route.
Remember going through these steps takes time. Getting therapy or another form of counseling WILL help, at first it may seem like it's not, but sexual abuse can cause a great deal of harm, and it might take a while to accept what happened and start the recovery process, be patient. YOU WILL GET BETTER with the right help.