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Re: Rape dreams - July 26th 2010, 12:08 AM
Hey,
I'm sorry that you're having this dream. While I don't know if there's a factual reason we have them, I do know that after such a traumatic experience it's usually embedded in our heads and we never forget them. Something is probably triggering you to have this dream. Sometimes flashbacks happen in the form of a dream, but if you say you're happy with your boyfriend it's probably not a flashback. However, sometimes after experiencing anything traumatic, we can delevop PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I cannot actually 'diagnose' because I'm not trained to or anything, but it could be the stress of what happened to you back then.

Have you tried to tell anyone about the dreams? If they keep happening you should definitely mention it to someone. A parent, adult, trusted friend? They'll be able to help you work through them, and maybe even going to see a counselor and facing what you went through will help them go away over time. Until then, I wish you the best of luck!

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