In fact, maybe you can even help someone else carry theirs. In a way, trying to survive the pain of your past is like drowning. You cannot get out of this alone. In fact, some of that suffering is because they will not even face the fact of their pain and what is causing it. Sometimes the monster that caused the pain is so ugly that you just want to run from it .
Many issues are like that, but none more than the monster of sexual abuse.
Perhaps no sin is more twisted, more devastating to its victim that this one. And researchers estimate that as many as one out of three women has been sexually abused - and possibly as many men. So, many teenagers and adults are walking around with this awful scar, this ticking time bomb inside. When it goes off, it can express itself in the form of sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, suicidal tendencies, eating disorders, emotional hardness, depression - a lot of ugly aftermaths. Your wounds may come from a different source - trouble in your family, heartbreak in your relationships, grief over a terrible loss, depression from a major trauma or hurt.