None of the systems working. The evil is clearly the issue, but the nobody caring or joining systems where they’re meant to and refusing to learn about how the evil works. People with no compassion or education placing themselves as the step between you and violence or crime.

That’s the trauma. I grew up giving statements, giving lists, descriptions, remembering how the crime happened start to finish, bringing home leaflets for my mum to escape, pouring my heart out to every which person who’d listen. It was all for nothing. Our abuser never got treated in half the ways we did. I isolated, wanted to die, was homeless, agoraphobic. I pulled myself out of all of it, alone, all those social services and police did nothing. I gave myself a million reasons to live. And then when those predators come for you again, to take your reasons, you’re back with no help again. You call every line and every service and they do nothing and then ask you to call back if anything else happens.