Hello, My name is Teresa, I am a drug rape survivor and taking a law degree. I am doing a dissertation on drug rape. Can anyone hepy with a few questions please?

WHAT AGE ARE YOU?
Are you female or male?
Where did you get drug raped (what area?)
Did you know the person who spiked you?
How long was it before you realised that the offence had taken place (i.e flashbacks)?
Describe your mental state afterwards (did you suffer PTSD)?
Did ypu report the offence to the police?
Did you get a conviction?
How has the attack effected you?

Any information would be great, your story would be most welcomed. I shall use your first name only. Thank you Teresa

I would be happy to help you, I've PM you my email address, send me your questions.

hiya,

i wasnt drunk raped, but i was spiked if my info helps in anyway please feel free to use it

WHAT AGE ARE YOU?
im 22 now. was spiked when i was 19

Are you female or male?
Female

Where did you get drug raped (what area?)

i was spiked but not raped in a bar/club (pub that turns to a club at night)in worthing, west sussex

Did you know the person who spiked you?

yes, a friend of a friend..tho i cant bloody prove it...which i add was a GIRL!

How long was it before you realised that the offence had taken place (i.e flashbacks)?

myself and my family knew straighht after something was wrong, as i came home drunk...VERY drunk yet i only had 3 alcopops and then an hour later not even that started seizing for 25 mins where an ambulance was called
but working it all out didnt fully happen till 8 months later after talking to a private home care company (as i was left disabled ) who had experiencer working with people using drugs

Describe your mental state afterwards (did you suffer PTSD)?

i was left with daly seizures , unable to walk and had to relarn to tak eat etc...so was very fucked up...wondering how come i was left like this after just 1 night!!!

i now have ptsd..not yet diagnosed ptsd still awiting therapy 3 years late!!!, constabnt flashbacks, nightmares, panic attacks, unable to sleep at night

Did ypu report the offence to the police?
no

Did you get a conviction?
no
How has the attack effected you?

i now have epielspy which is unstable, left hemiplegia - means my left side body is parlaised, i have learning difficultys (visual perception disorder) aswell s daily
flashbacks, nightmares, panic attacks, unable to sleep at night.

i lost all friends i did have, i cant socialise, too scared to go out at night or with new people,i havent stepped back inside a pub/club since.

my parents are now my full time carers, and reliant on them aswell as my wheelchair to get me around

my mental state has worsend time and time again...but im STILL waiting for mental health care..at right now being forced to go private for it.

Thank you so much for answering the questioner. I am so so upset after reading your answers. What happened you was horrific. To be left disabled, God. Some people are just evil, the person who did this tp you will have no luck ever! What comes around goes around. I am a great believer in that saying. I was drug gang raped coming up on two years and I suffer flasbacks every day. However, I know that the guys responsible will never have any luck, maybe not now but sometime in the future.

My tutor asked me to re-word my questioner, so IF you do not mind I shall be posting a similar questioner soon. Here is my email addy mailteresa@talktalk.net I would like to do an interview with you, if thats ok? We could do it by email. I have to wait for the ethics committee to pass this first though. All red tape, even when writing a dissertation.

Life for you will get better, you are still very young, I shall be thinking of you, and thankyou once again. Teresa

Hello,

Just joined this website and this is my first post. I have never used a forum thing before yet for some reason feel compelled to sit here and respond to you.

I just turned 28 on wednesday, The Saturday night before was my works annual do and i have strong reason to believe i was drug raped. I can't remember all of what happened and the darkness of it all is that for most part of this week just gone i thought i was dealing with a prick not knowing that he crossed a line by taking advantage of me in a really pissed state. But things haven't felt right all week and some part of it just don't make sense. Since then i have been out drinking again and realised how little i had drank to have gotten in such a state. I rang Roofie and told them what had gone on and they told me i was describing a drug rape scenario. So this is all quite fresh and hard to swallow right now that a guy who i knew could preempt such a thing and bring drugs to a work do to purposefully find a girl to rape. It's still hard to believe that but the way i felt the day after and all week and even now is not the response of someone who has got it wrong.

Anyway i won't go on, here's the answers to your questions.
I'm 28 now, i was 27 this time last week though.
Female
In a work's do at a resort. we all get hotel rooms for the night and the party is in an adjacent buiilding.
Yes i knew him. Casual aquaintance, he lives with a work friend of mine and he was part of this dinner club of six we started. That's why it's so hard to swallow this...

Took me a few hours to realise i had been taken advantage of and not just had a drunk one night stand. Several days to get my head around the reality and hear from others what had happened earlier on in the night.

My mental state? Hard one. I have gone from self doubt thinking i have gone way over the top and that i have made a big mess of everything to wanting to go kill the bastard and hit him and punch him and scream at him and hurt him so bad. I am a strong person, i have been the subject of abuse before and i know that life has to go on. Been tough with it being my bday - spent most of that on the phone and meeting afriend to help fill in the missing pieces. I can't just forget it and move on yet i know i can't sit here feeling like a victim either. Confused... PTSD, i don't think so. I am weepy, i am thinking about it at work, when out with friends and any spare moment that someone isn't occupying me.

Not told police. I was thinking of filing a report but haven't done yet.

It's effected me in the way that i now distrust men again but the one good thing that has come from this is how much i have realised i have friends there, true friends who care and support me and who have had similar things happen to them. At least 3 of my close friends have been taken advantage of, one of them were drugged so they know that feeling that only someone who has been abused can understand. The sick, guilty, angry, confused, ashamed feeling.

I would be intetrested in knowing how you get on with your report. It amazes me how many cases there seems to be.

Good luck and let me know if you need any more info.

I am sorry to hear what happened you. Yes, it does sound very much like a drug spiking. It may take time for you to digest all the info your body and brain is experiencing. It took me a week or so to say "yes", "this did happen to me". I knew something was wrong the next day but could not be certain. That is the efect of the drugs. The drugs whipe your memory out short term. Please go see your doctor and have checks at the GUM clinic. Also report this to the police.

Was there cctv in the works do? Al this needs to be checked out, before its too late. Thank you for answering my questionnare. Let me know how you get on. But above all take care and be kind to yourself. Do not beat yourself up over this, it was not your fault.

Talk to close family and friends, you need help to see this through. Teresa