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285: What if your life was not your own?

This Is Actually Happening

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My Dad's Response to a Date Rape

"I was like a teapot. You just keep bubbling and bubbling until one day that you explode," she says of her reaction to being raped. "After the second incident I definitely went through a state of hypersexuality." She tried BDSM, choked out or dressed very risque in an effort to numb herself. After trying to commit suicide because of what people said about her parents' reactions, he learned to be more careful with her.

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