After it happened, I also had trauma. I used to be a very joyful and sociable boy, and I started to close up. The most difficult period for me was the teenage years. It was complicated to heal sentimentally speaking. You know, the first discoveries: the first time you date a girl, the first time you kiss her, etc. It was really difficult ! Also because I blamed myself for a long time. I knew very well that it wasn’t my fault, but when you’re a child and you see this kind of act, you’re telling yourself: I could’ve done something. Of course, but what ? That’s the big question.
It usually takes time. The most regrettable are these stupid things people say: “don’t worry, it’ll pass” or “I understand you”. And there’s actually this social pressure behind this, people see you like a poor little thing. But no! I’m not a poor little thing! I’m a human being who’s going to have to evolve in the face of something that just happened. I think we all have the power to heal and rebuild ourselves in the face of an event. I’m currently writing a book on resilience. I take hard and complicated situations, and I try to bring them to light to erase the hardness, and bring forward the positive, the reconstruction.”
(Carouge | translated from French)
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After it happened, I also had trauma. I used to be a very joyful and sociable boy, and I started to close up. The most difficult period for me was the teenage years. It was complicated to heal sentimentally speaking. You know, the first discoveries: the first time you date a girl, the first time you kiss her, etc. It was really difficult ! Also because I blamed myself for a long time. I knew very well that it wasn’t my fault, but when you’re a child and you see this kind of act, you’re telling yourself: I could’ve done something. Of course, but what ? That’s the big question.
It usually takes time. The most regrettable are these stupid things people say: “don’t worry, it’ll pass” or “I understand you”. And there’s actually this social pressure behind this, people see you like a poor little thing. But no! I’m not a poor little thing! I’m a human being who’s going to have to evolve in the face of something that just happened. I think we all have the power to heal and rebuild ourselves in the face of an event. I’m currently writing a book on resilience. I take hard and complicated situations, and I try to bring them to light to erase the hardness, and bring forward the positive, the reconstruction.”
(Carouge | translated from French)