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For Olivia Adamson, her body art "is a visual reminder I am still alive. And still OK." What she particularly likes is the ability to touch it: the words"unbreakable" on the right side of her left foot and"survivor" in her aunt's handwriting on the inside of her left wrist."If I am having a hard time, as soon as I touch my wrist and I run my finger over my word 'survivor,' it helps.
Adamson, 24, of Austin, Texas, was sexually assaulted in November 2015 and in January 2016. In both cases, she knew the perpetrator. Their sexual assaults happened decades ago. Now women see Kavanaugh's accusers come forward and wonder if they could do the sameHer only support network was her aunt, she says, and she got the"survivor" tattoo as part of the healing process.
Another concern is that people might see tattooing as a distraction."While you're coping with physical pain, your brain isn't doing that processing of the memory that it needs to do" to be able to move on, she said. Maxwell agrees that processing trauma through tattoos needs to happen in line with other therapy. She added that tattoos have the potential to become maladaptive: unhelpful behaviors that hinder people from adjusting healthily.
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