Article: "My mother doesn't seem to believe that my brother sexually abused me"

Taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/03/private-lives-sexual-abuse

In this article, we're talked about a real -and absolutely terrible- case in which a woman, who's now about to have her first friend, was sexual abused by his older brother seven years ago, and to make it worst, she was also abused by her father. She hasn't wanted to tell us her name for protecting her privacy. When 7 years ago, her father died, she told her mather what her dad did her, but hid her mother the truth about her brother. In that time, the mather became very upset and did not react very well. Now, as she's married, she's got the courage to tell her mother her most terrible secret, but she -the mother- didn't react as the daughter expected, and constantly asks her about dates, etc., in a process in which she's had to remember again her trauma, something very distressing obviusly, and insulting too. Although she understands her mother's position, she feels too bad, and doesn't now where it is going to finish.
This singular and horrible case is too much interesting to me, because gets me close to the Clinical Psychology -the Psychology area which I'm interested in the most-, and allows me think about the strategies to help this woman, thinking of those people's special characteristics that have made the events to happen. The main reason why I chose the career of Psychology was my aspiration to use these knowledge as a tool for helping people, to understand and to explain people's behaviors -and strange behaviors-, and surely when I work in a Clinic I'll see some cases like which I've told about here.