If you are a survivor of sexual assault or abuse...
You may be experiencing the following:

• Nightmares
• Flashbacks
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Increased startle response
• Difficulty sleeping
• Difficulty concentrating
• Difficulty with relationships
• Avoidance of people, things and places that remind you of the trauma
• Sexual problems

What you can do...
Because people can heal from trauma

Things that help:

• Supportive friends and family
• Therapeutic relationship ­ individual and/or group
• Medication may be helpful for a while
• Seeing yourself as a multi-dimensional person who has survived a difficult experience
• Writing in a journal
• Staying safe and taking good care of yourself

Things that don't help:

• Keeping the assault or abuse secret
• Protecting the perpetrator who may be harming someone else
• Isolating yourself
• Reenacting abuse in other relationships
• Feeling responsible for what happened to you