If you are a survivor of child sexual 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 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 back to top