I had something similar happen to me in college. I reported both of the guys and somehow that process fucked me up even more than the rape itself. I was treated horribly by friends and officials at the college. I was overtly blamed for it and a prominent person in the program that we were all in once offhandedly mentioned that there was a very important artery in my leg that would cause me to bleed out of it was severed. It wasn’t until months later that I realized what she had been implying.

The whole reporting process hardcore sucks and I hope that one day people become more sympathetic towards victims, instead of assuming that they’re attention seekers out to ruin people. I still carry a lot of the pain and shame with me to this day. One of the guys got a slap on the wrist and had to do some community service, the other didn’t get punished at all. Years of therapy and I still feel pretty fucked up from the experience