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Airports, Step 1 Cloud 9. This is a CBC podcast. The story you're about to hear includes details

of sexual violence. The content may be distressing for some listeners. Please take care.

Months are passing by. Carrie says she can't sleep. She's terrified to leave her home and feels

anxious everywhere. On the bus, walking, going to work, she never feels safe.

It's made me question a lot of different things. Society, people, organizations, my safety,

you know, my safety in the world, the safety for my children. It's done a lot of damage.

I've now developed mental health issues, PTSD, you know, I'm now on medication to treat

things because at one point I wasn't sleeping for months. I was averaging 12 hours a week,

nights, nights, nights, and I had to leave my job. I've been in an industry for over 20 years

and it got to a point that I had to leave my work and haven't been able to go back. So,

it's been a struggle emotionally, mentally, physically, financially. It's changed my life.

The aftermath of an attack involving sexual violence is something like a tsunami, a massive

force that in a matter of hours can wipe out every foundation and pillar of familiarity,

changing the very landscape. For Carrie, what remains is a sense of danger.

My anxiety and hypervigilance, the slame of a door, someone screaming would put me into panic.

So, it's been tough. I have been going through therapy, but unfortunately I haven't been able to

deal with the actual trauma itself because it's been so focused on the aftermath and how things

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