Human trafficking survivor

I am Lyrasia a Human Trafficking Survivor...

Born in France in the Famous city of Paris I grow up and spend most of my life there . Just before my life turned into a nightmare I found a New job , I was working at a store as a saler , I loved it , the human contact , exchanging with new people everyday was amazing , I’ve always been friendly and i love to get to know new people their story or you know laugh with them even just for a little bit I wasn’t really treating them as clients but more like friends , I was also a really good saler and I got promoted I became then the store manager , I was 20 years old at that time , Life was treating good . I was financially really stable and decided to take my own apartment.

I moved like 3 weeks later . It was ok I was going to the gym , hanging out with friends but most of the time working . I was deep down in my little comfortable routine . But yeah unfortunately things got dramatically ugly in the horrific way .

I met this guy He was on vacation for a little while as he said visiting, enjoying his free time away from home because He is somebody that works a lot . His home country was America . I’ve exchanged with him for a little bit , he was nice respectful thoughtful and gentle , well he was a good actor or let say a professional of its kind . He literally visited me at work most of his stay . We exchanged our numbers and yeah that was the mistake of my life ..

As you can imagine we end up talking really often, he also came visiting me few times in France, Not easy from two different country But if it was only that , I thought having someone good in my life but he was evil , I think little red flags was apparently appearing but because of a less of confidence a low self esteem I blamed myself and told myself being to hard on other , I also sadly accepted deserving less because I thought not being good enough .. maybe we all go through this path in life maybe not but if you do please don’t be blind you are beautiful and will always be worth it don’t wait for anybody to tell you that to believe in yourself .

Every day since a meet him he asked me to come visit Him to his country for vacation after a year passed I finally considered it, I wasn’t comfortable with it I refused many time I was also working and had responsibilities, but he insisted so many time blamed me to be selfish ,I felt guilty because he did come visiting me more than once so I was like ok let me take some vacation time and go visit him .

The minute I said yes everything was already set up , he booked the flight , Choose the day it wasn’t even 2 weeks later , I was scared because I’ve never traveled before especially by myself . Always stayed in France as far as I can remember.

The day came i am now on the plane ready to fly with my little suitcase , ready to go for a month vacation I thought ...

I payed my rent in advance , arranged my day off with my job and yeah that was it . Flying was scary so scary for me and it was so long omg you can’t even imagine my first time flying and plus 8hours on the plane heh that was a lot .

I arrived safely thanks God , I got there and of course he was waiting for me , it was so weird to be in a new country where you don’t know nothing about , nobody . I had this feeling that came on the way the minute I landed , a scary feeling that just completely froze my heart . I felt something was wrong something bad I cant even tell how , why or even what but I did feel it .

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A month later I was Kidnapped ... isolated and about to be trafficked for what was going to be a Year and 3 months .. A house in the middle of nowhere, a little room, And a horrific nightmare was just about to begin...

This is only a short extraction of my Story .

I am @lyrasia (Instagram ) A human trafficking survivor. I’ve been abused , raped , used , forced , and isolated for more than a year and I’m here to be heard to tell my story , to fight , help prevent it to happen to other , and also here to be a voice and an inspiration for those that are depressed or haven’t seen any bright day in a little while. I’ve suffered from PTSD, depression , anxiety, eating disorder, flashbacks, blackouts for months but I made it out and became stronger and I want you to see that you are capable and strong enough . Whatever happened to you doesn’t define you , it is awful and nobody can change it. It’s part of who you are now , you can’t change it either but what you can change is how you wanna deal with it and the impact it has on You , your daily life , your social life , and your beloved one .

I send you a lot of love and strength ❤️