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For folks who have experienced any kind of sexual violation--including medical experiences that have felt violating--it makes some sense that you might have anxiety or fear about pursuing further care. I don't know that I have The Answer for you when it comes to how to best manage this, but I do...

Abba: this isn't an odd question at all, and we do counsel users with rape and sexual abuse quite often. I'm also a survivor of rape and sexual abuse myself. Rape is a violent crime, and it is normal for any of us to experience trauma from a violent crime being committed to, on or inside of us. It's...

I don't know of anyone who would think that they needed to guard their drink from someone they thought of as a best friend. I sure wouldn't. There's just no sound reason, at all, for you to think that for some reason, you should have thought to do something that pretty much no one on earth would...