Bláthnaid Raleigh

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Talking Bollox Podcast · Episode 276 w/ Blathnaid Raleigh · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And it wasn't really until, I'd say maybe...

Eight months before the trial was due to start that I was like, right, you need to get yourself in a place where you can face this because you're going to have to face them.

So you need to pick yourself up.

I gained a huge amount of weight.

I was just miserable.

I was just like a hermit, really.

Went to counselling.

Started counselling more or less straight away.

I went to the Rape Crisis Centre in Tullamore and they were excellent.

And it was weekly at the start and then fortnightly.

But I was really good at it.

I'd go to the counsellor and I wouldn't want her to feel bad about herself, like think she wasn't doing a good job.

So I'd tell her I was doing great.

And I could be brutal, like I mightn't have slept and I'd be like, I'm doing really well this week, you know, or she'd be like suggesting something and I'd be like, I tried that, tried that journal and it worked wonders for me.

And I'd be in an office, I spent so much time

sitting staring into space I think I was so exhausted then my doctor gave me Xanax for a while so I was like out of it it was just yeah it was bleak I was robbed of those years and and that part like I look back now and I I think what did I do for those years you know what I mean like it was a very it robbed everything I often say it was like a bomb went off it

in my personality and I had to build a personality all over again you know try and put the pieces back together and like some of them are are the same but there's a lot of things that are very different now than you know the old person but yeah it was it was paralyzing.

I was just stuck.

I always felt like I was stuck and I felt so lonely.

Like no matter what I did, whether I went to council, whether I talked to people, I thought nobody gets this or, you know, I talked to somebody and they'd suggest something and I just agree with them to make them feel better about it.

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