When I hear the word rape, I start crying? ?

Question

Whenever I hear the word rape something inside me, like an electric shock, runs through me and I get angry and agitated. Whenever I hear or read the word molestation I just start to cry, and I can’t constrain myself. This started to happen a couple of months ago. When I told my friend, she said that I may have been molested and not remember it. But I don’t remember anything slightly like that, nor do I have any people in my life that, that has happened to. What is this and how do I get rid of this?

Answer 1

I would try to educate yourself as much as possible on background meanings of things and prolly see a psychiatrist.  talk about how you feel with someone and see if they cant help you talk yourself through it and get more comfortable with the idea of rape, I know thats a hard thing to do for anyone, rape and molestation are terrible acts and no one should ever feel comfortable with the idea of either of them, but if you really do get upset over them, there is prolly some deep fear you have that you need to try to find the cause of.  I am very sorry you get so emotional about it and I hope you can work through it.

Answer 2

If it were me, I'd get therapy, and sign up for a class in women's protective exercise.

You're scared.  I understand.  When you have the power to defend yourself, and distract your mind about thinking about it, you will take back the power, be under control, and feel like yourself again.

TX Mom

Answer 3

Sometimes when we are molested the mind tries to forget it

this mechanism you mind goes Thou, is to ensured you don't get

really affected  by it! (You can go visit  a therapist)

sometimes meditation helps a lot  to bring this out.

It can be you saw someone being abuse too,If this happen when you were little you probably were deeply affected by it.

Answer 4

Just a guess, but that sounds like body memory. In the case of someone who had been in a really bad car accident and and doesn't remember the accident, the person might have panic attacks, have trouble breathing, or feel really tense whenever he or she drives by the scene of the accident. This happens to rape victims, soldiers, and others who have been through intense trauma. It is very possible to have been raped but not remember. Don't go for hypnosis or let someone talk you into remembering. If you weren't raped, being talked into a "memory" is false memory syndrome. If you were raped, it might take a specific event to trigger the memory. Or maybe you'll never know for sure.