As you can probably tell form the title, my friend was almost raped a few years ago by her cousin. He pinned her to the bed when he was drunk one night and tried to undress her but someone knocked on the bedroom door so he stopped and left. She was 14 and he was 17 and she has never told anyone except from me.
Anyway, now she's 16 and has a boyfriend of about a year and a half but she is afraid to do anything more than kiss and hug. She says it's just because she stresses about these things (she's been diagnosed with anxiety) but i think it's to do with her encounter with her cousin. After all that was around the time that she got diagnosed with the anxiety issues becase she woke up in the night with panic attacks.
I don't know how i can help her. I don't know whether it's the kind of thing that i should encourage her to tell someone about, or tell someone myself, or to get her to talk to me about it in the hope of releasing some of the stress of keeping it a secret. Or maybe i should just leave it alone all together.
Any help is appreciated here thank you.
Anyway, now she's 16 and has a boyfriend of about a year and a half but she is afraid to do anything more than kiss and hug. She says it's just because she stresses about these things (she's been diagnosed with anxiety) but i think it's to do with her encounter with her cousin. After all that was around the time that she got diagnosed with the anxiety issues becase she woke up in the night with panic attacks.
I don't know how i can help her. I don't know whether it's the kind of thing that i should encourage her to tell someone about, or tell someone myself, or to get her to talk to me about it in the hope of releasing some of the stress of keeping it a secret. Or maybe i should just leave it alone all together.
Any help is appreciated here thank you.
