Shame received considerable attention after the series took up abuse as a problem among youth. Now it turns out that more have sought help from professionals.
About 30 percent more people have sought out sexual assault center in Oslo in June and July this year, compared to the monthly average in recent years.
Lisa Arntzen is a social worker in Dixi. She thinks series Shame helped several people dare to seek help for abuse.
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Meanwhile Resource Dixi had an increase of 26 percent new users compared with the same period last year.
– I think that when more people know what is actually punishable, so maybe they think that things they have been exposed to was not okay. It helps to increase awareness of most people, but also lower the threshold for seeking help, says Lisa Arntzen, social workers and media contact in Dixi.
Emotional chaos
However, although more seeking help inform sexual assault center that studies still indicate that only 10 percent of those who have experienced sexual abuse, reports from. Many people experience an emotional turmoil in its aftermath, says Helle Nesvold, chief of reception in Oslo.
Helle Nesvold Superintendent sexual assault center in Oslo and has welcomed many people who have been abused.
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– the first immediate reaction to abuse is often confusion and unthinkable, mixed diffuse shame and guilt. Man do not quite understand what all this was.
She thinks series Shame helps more people know where to seek help. And that it is important to seek help, even if you will not go to the police.
– Around one-fifth come without knowing what has happened. They wake maybe in a suspicious situation and needs clarification.
Never seen such numbers
While the sexual assault center had around a hundred cases in June and July, Dixi received inquiries from nearly 90 people in May and June.
– Such numbers we’ve never seen before. It may be a combination of media attention, several information campaigns and more festliv that enables multiple reports from outside, said Nesvold.
Arntzen at Dixi says many of those contacts are very unsure about what they experienced.
– we hope that the increase means that more people are seeking help and not that more are raped, but we do not know.
several police reports
In the half-year figures in the Oslo police are also increasing numbers. Within sexual offenses were in the first half of this year registered 390 reviews, an increase of 27.9 percent from last year.
Oslo police have previously documented how review figures for sexual offenses affected during periods when abuse is ahead in the public debate . They are therefore not surprised that there is a stronger demand for Shame and other media reports.
Noora tells her friends that she thinks she is raped, and they go to the emergency room.
Noora tells her friends that she thinks she is raped, and they go to the emergency room.
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