Many people ask if it is possible to have a relationship after you have been abused and the answer is yes. It does however, depend on you. RELATIONSHIPS I had a rough time building any form of relationships after the sexual abuse. The idea of sex made me cringe at times. Other times I wanted…
In the Irish Examiner 17th February 2018, Seán Mc Cárthaigh reported that Juveniles committed 45% of sex offences in 2016 and that Juvenile offenders were responsible for almost half of all sexual offences recorded by Gardaí in 2016. I have to say that when I first heard the statistics on young offenders I was in…
CLICK OVER IMAGE TO LISTEN TO BLOG Is it bad that I am a perfectionist? I can say that I would have been very happy to describe myself as a perfectionist as I saw it as a person who was good and wanted to do their best. I was often teased for the way I…
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO LISTEN TO THE BLOG When abuse of any description is covered on TV it is usually followed by an announcement that if you have been triggered by the content of the programme call this phone number. As a victim of childhood sexual abuse, I often heard the term triggers without…
