By understanding trauma, Wisconsin youth find path to healing [jsonline.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/27/174:00 AM

It was nine years ago, at the age of 11, that Meggi Lampen was sexually abused.

It was seven years ago that she first told anyone about it.

She withdrew and repressed what had happened. In the back of her mind, she knew something wasn’t right. But she had no context to put it in – or let it out.

"At the time I was like, I don’t know if this is normal,” Lampen said. “I don’t know if people come into other people’s beds at night and do that."

[For more on this story by Rory Linnane, go to http://www.jsonline.com/story/...h-healing/773940001/]

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