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NSHN Forum Support & On Topic Forums. Some additional boards are viewable to members only => Survivor Room => Topic started by: GlennUK on March 27, 2024, 06:44:27 PM
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As a male survivor of sexual abuse at the age of 15, that abuse caught up with me in my late 30s/40s and I began to have risky casual sex that ended up getting me repeatedly involved in high risk sexual activity that used recreational drugs and unprotected sex. In 2014, that chaotic behaviour left me diagnosed hiv+ve.
10 years after that diagnosis, I’m going through counselling to learn that what I did wasn’t wrong, it was just my coping strategy at the time for all the pain that ate at my core that I didn’t know how to process.
I’m now in a much safer and better place and so grateful to be here today.
It doesn’t matter how you self-harm, cutting oneself or biologically self-harming oneself, I believe we share a similar pain.
Whatever you’re going through and whatever your method, please believe you’re not alone and there’s love and light in the tunnel ahead.
Glenn x