Posted by pinkeye on June 2, 2005, at 16:30:04
In reply to Could this be sexual abuse/trauma??, posted by Torey on June 2, 2005, at 16:22:55
Of course you should bring it up.
I think the Dr did what he/she had to - and they wouldn't have thought twice about doing it because it was needed in a medical sense. And I think that could definitely not be taken as sexual abuse. Not at all. (But if I were a male doctor, I would have referred you to a female doctor instead of doing it myself.)
But more than likely, attaining puberty at such young an age is what caused your depression and other issues. Attaining puberty is difficult as it is, with all the confusion that surrounds it, and what to say of it, if it happens so early on? It would definitely be a traumatic experience to go through all that at 4.
But you should tell everything to your therapist. That would really help.
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