Last night on Instagram Live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recounted her traumatic experience during the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6 and revealed that she is also a survivor of sexual assault. “These folks who tell us to move on, that it’s not a big deal, that we should forget what’s happened, or even telling us to apologize.
These are the same tactics of abusers. And I’m a survivor of sexual assault. I haven’t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.” As someone who lives with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I understand the effects of compound trauma all too well.
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