Gabrielle Union shares her experience of 30-year PTSD battle after gunpoint rape

Gabrielle Union bravely opened up about her ongoing 30-year battle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a survivor of rape.

She candidly opened up about her mental health issues after being the victim of sexual assault when she was 19.

“As a rape survivor, I have battled PTSD for 30 years,” the 49-year-old actress wrote in social media. “Living with anxiety and panic attacks all these years has never been easy.

“There’s times the anxiety is so bad it shrinks my life. Leaving the house or making a left hand turn at an uncontrolled light can fill me with terror.

“Everyone experiences and deals with anxiety differently, and that’s OK. I don’t need you to try to ‘fix’ me,” she added.

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