How to bring up potential CSA to a therapist?
Hi, hoping anyone here might have experience with this.
So I was sexually assaulted by my ex girlfriend. I dissociated during it and only remember bits and pieces. Recently I was at a concert and got groped by a woman over twice my age and even though the people around me defended me and got them away from me, I still had nightmares and it brought back a lot of bad memories. I thought it would just be about my ex girlfriend (that happened a little over a year ago), but I started having nightmares about all of the times I've been harassed, my old job, and my childhood, too. And I started connecting little dots of things that I did and thought and said that I thought as a really little kid that were a bit suspicious. A lot of them make me wonder if I was assaulted as a child.
I don't know how to present this case to a therapist/psychiatrist though, and despite having an appointment scheduled, I'm just worried they're going to dismiss me as hysterical or making stuff up. That's what I'm worried about, honestly: that I'm just making this all up and I've invented some horrible trauma to justify my actions/why I am the way that I am.
Any advice is appreciated, thanks for reading all the way through this.