Cindy

So the police still took me to the hospital, which was fine on the way there.

So about 20 minutes or so after I had given them that quick rundown, one of the police officers turned around in the car and they just said, hey, look,

Just to let you know, there's no statute of limitations when it comes to sexual abuse.

So if you want to report it today, you can, or if you want to report it in 10 years, you can.

So I was just like, okay, yeah, sure.

And I went to a mental health evaluation unit.

I sat there in a glass room for maybe five or six hours and I had a lot of time to think.

And having it validated by the police that it was sexual abuse, because that term hadn't entered my mind, that was a moment where I decided to report what had happened because just having that validation was...

very eye-opening.

And it took me, I sat there in that room for hours and, you know, I didn't even pick up my phone.

I was just thinking and going over everything, going over the last few months, the last few years.

And it seemed like that was the right thing to do because at that time I was feeling like

The narrative was being completely flipped to make me look unstable, which I think is what the welfare check was for.

I had all the specialists come in.

They did what they had to do and answered all their questions.

And basically they diagnosed it as an adjustment reaction or adjustment disorder, which is

It's a strong but temporary response to a stressful life event.

There were times where I did question, am I okay?

Am I bipolar?

Am I BPD?