How do you get over sexual assault

Lot of therapy, life style improvements and support. Medication as last resort. All of this helps manage.

You don't have to "get over" it to experience a fulfilling life. Or forget it, not needed for healing.

What will likely happen is growing a reservoir of techniques that can make the trauma have less impact on your emotional being.

And it is entirely individual journey..that means take your time and be kind to yourself in the process.

I'm heartbroken for anyone that has had to live through things of that nature. Given my experience with abuse, and the subsequent lost of trust that bleeds into every other relationship, the only thing I can advise is to accept that it happened.

A lot of people try to go back to normal, to push it away, to lose themselves in various forms of escapism, to minimize or ignore the topic altogether, and it's these defense mechanisms that ultimately fail because it never addresses your newfound lack of faith in people or the anxieties that come with being around people.

Run towards these problems, not away from it. Write about how you really feel about what happened. About the person or people who do it. About what changed for you afterwards. About why you think they did that to you, or what did you get wrong about your judgment of them, It happened to you. Trying to force yourself to forget it won't ever change that.

Once you realize that you're letting some morally crippled, emotionally bankrupt, self-serving narcissist live in your head rent-free, you can start to forgive yourself and heal. You owe it to yourself and your future happiness to realize you don't have to be the person they made you

Finding a good therapist to talk about it with helps. If you have PTSD from it, meds can help too. I've heard EMDR is a good way to recover from PTSD, but I've not been brave enough to try it yet. I hope you find peace.

There are things in life that we don’t get over, but we eventually learn to manage the effects of what happened to us. Some of these things were either so traumatic, or so prolonged, or both that they are imbedded in our nervous system, and there is no getting rid of them. This is PTSD or CPTSD, just the same thing really. A good therapist may help you manage it, and give you techniques to use for doing that.

I had a great therapist, unfortunately, the techniques did not work for me (perhaps there were not enough activities where I could practice them), and after the last episode, which in itself added to my anguish, I decided the best course for me was to avoid any situation that would bring on a panic attack.

I agree with Miram and would also suggest a self defence course when you feel ready for it, in order to help increase your confidence.

I hear that finding your rapist and blowing his dick off with a shotgun can assist with the theropy.

We all need help at sometime.

A trained therapist is needed