Sexual assault and sexual harassment are traumatic events. Like other kinds of trauma, sexual assault and harassment often negatively impact the survivors for years after the event. During sexual assault or harassment, victims often feel afraid, helpless, horrified, humiliated and confused. If the trauma is upsetting enough, some victims go completely numb and cut them-selves off from the experience. Intense feelings about a trauma can last for a long time after the event. Other survivors say their feelings about the experience were absent for a long time, then reappeared.

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