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Do I matter? - A Student's Experience

Its weird when I look at the Safer Campus Community website. My heart drops on the floor. My eyes well-up. I start to feel sad and I don't know how to explain it. There is so much information about what to do, who to contact, and a direct and anonymous way to report. I look at it and I feel like someone cares, that I'd actually be safe and there's somewhere that's okay to talk about what happened. It makes me feel sad because I remember what things were like in 2016, when I had to deal with what happened when I rejected romantic attention from a university lecturer. What was there for me wasn't anything like a Safer Campus Community site. I spent over a year confused about what to do. Feeling alone. When it seemed like I hit a dead end, I became depressed and thought about leaving. I doubted myself. I doubted other people from the university who tried to help me, and still  do. It feels like nothing has changed for me. Giving up and wishing I never talked ...