I’m a nurse who helps sexual assault survivors. Jane Doe’s texts from Cornell sound like what I hear in Philadelphia.
A nurse discusses the challenges sexual assault survivors face when systems minimize their experiences during the early stages of coping. The author draws parallels between cases in Cornell and Philadelphia.
Two of the many ways survivors of sexual assault cope are through early normalizing and minimizing phases. But our systems tend to treat whatever a survivor says during these as the whole story.
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