RAPE
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Are you a victim of rape? Do you believe the rape was the result of poor security in your building, apartment, or hotel? Have you suffered permanent emotional damage as a result of the rape?
Do you meet any of the following criteria?
* During the traumatic event you believed you might die.
* You experienced feelings of intense fear, helplessness, hopelessness and horror during the attack.
* You re-experience the trauma in any of the following ways:
-You have recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the rape, including images, thoughts and perceptions.
-You have recurrent distressing dreams of the rape.
-You experience the rape reoccurring in flashbacks, illusions or hallucinations.
-You have intense psychological distress when you are exposed to things, people or places that remind you of the attack.
*You specifically try to avoid stimuli that makes you recall the rape. Some examples of this avoidance are as follows:
- Trying to avoid thoughts, feelings or conversations associated with the rape.
- Trying to avoid activities, places or people that remind you of the attack.
-You are unable to remember an important aspect of the trauma.
-You have intense psychological distress when you are exposed to things, people or places that remind you of the attack.
-You have a markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities.
-You feel detached or estranged from others, including loved ones.
-You have a restricted range of feelings (i.e.: you feel unable to have loving feelings, you are unable to trust anyone, etc.)
-You have a sense of a foreshortened future (i.e.: you don't believe you will have a normal life span but will die prematurely)
*You have persistent symptoms of increased arousal which was not present before the attack such as:
-Difficulty falling or staying asleep
-Irritability or outbursts of anger
-Difficulty concentrating
-Hypervigilance
-Exaggerated startle response
If you believe you have a potential lawsuit because of the injuries described above please contact us.
Related Cases:
$2,200,000:
This verdict was the largest sexual assault verdict in Illinois at the time. The victim was raped at work in the Chicago Bar Association Building which was managed by a management corporation. Ms. Zellner subpoenaed the rapist from prison to testify on client's behalf.
Left: Kathleen Zellner, Middle: Client
