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    Rape Recovery: A Personal Experience
    Rape Recovery: A Personal Experience
    Rape Recovery: A Personal Experience
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    Rape Recovery: A Personal Experience

    By L.C. Chanler

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    In this unique book, L.C. Chanler exposes her past giving readers an inside look to her rape. It includes intimate details of her attack, her recovery process, as well as stories of other people who have gone through and come out the other side of rape recovery. This book covers everything from the incident to long term effects. It addresses guilt, nightmares, depression, escapism, and panic attacks, and includes a comprehensive list of rape victim resources available within the United States. This book offers alternatives and advice to those who have gone through similar circumstances and is great reading for those who just want to help and understand a rape victim!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.C. Chanler
    Release dateAug 25, 2012
    ISBN9781476103051
    Rape Recovery: A Personal Experience
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    L.C. Chanler

    The work of L.C. CHANLER has been used by many self help consultants across the United States. Work authored by L.C. include Turning Grief into Gratitude, Finding Love in the Summer of Life, Happiness on a Budget, Who Wants to be Normal (Spark up Your Life), and Eat Your Heart Out (Happy and Loving It). L.C. is a full time author and life coach. Winters give L.C. inspiration on the beaches in Kona, Hawaii, while summers in Taos, New Mexico provide margaritas, good times with friends, and relaxation.

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      Rape Recovery - L.C. Chanler

      Rape Recovery: A Personal Experience

      By: L.C. Chanler

      Rape Recovery

      By: L.C. Chanler

      Copyright 2012 Edification Press

      Smashwords Edition

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This eBook is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work. All rights are reserved. No part of this eBook may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author and Edification Press.

      What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

      -Henry David Thoreau

      Forward

      I first started to write this account as a cathartic experience, and then I started to realize that other people could benefit by my story, so I decided to make it available to others. All of the names and places have been changed within in order to protect the victims’ identities and privacy, as many have chosen to put that part of their lives behind them.

      I hope this account helps you as much as hearing other people’s story helped me.

      Introduction

      If you are reading this account of my rape, chances are that you or someone close to you has had a similar experience. You are not alone!! You may feel alone, but that is the difference between feeling and fact.

      According to the FBI there were 84,767 sexual assaults in the United States in 2010 (Boston Globe, How many rapes in US? Depends on the definition, September 29, 2011, by Erica Goode, http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2011/09/28/how-many-rapes-depends-definition/MJ3jNGvsvKGTe8wkBF7X0H/story.html). That’s enough to populate a medium sized city! However, the statistics don’t stop there, because the definition of ‘sexual assault’ used by the FBI is more than 80 years old, and doesn’t include cases of oral or anal penetration, male victims, object penetration, or cases where the victims were under the influence of a substance. Therefore, many rape cases are not counted as rapes in the yearly totals. The definition of ‘sexual assault’ held by the FBI is, "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.’’ This report total for sexual assault, as well as all violent crimes, is voluntarily provided by the country’s more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies.

      This leaves the very high total even more in doubt due to the ungoverned nature of the reporting. In addition, these totals only include reported cases. From personal experience, I know that many rape cases go unreported, due to fear of the reporting process, a want to just get the event behind them, or even guilt. (Yes guilt let me just say that rape is NEVER the victims fault.) In fact, the above total doesn’t include my rape case, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

      In addition 64% of rapes or sexual assaults are not reported to the police (2001, National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)). One out of every six American women has been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (1998, NIJC & CDC). 1 in 3 women will be the victims of a sexual assault by their 18th birthday (1998, NIJC & CDC ).

      About 3% of American men - about 1 in 35 have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (1998, NIJC & CDC ). 1 in 6 men

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