Its more than just denial though making you feel stupid when its you in that place. For a long time, I would tell people and the first thing they would do would be to start interrogating me about how I could possibly not know, or why I didn't fight harder, or why did I stay as long as I did...
Trigger warning for language, violence
Trigger warning for sexual assault, violence, language
TL,DR and trigger free: The human mind is really good at rationalizing things we don't want to admit, and it took a friend of mine to smack me over the head with the fact that I was actually being...