A friend said she had never recovered from the ordeal and 'became a kind of hermit'.
She never had a long-term relationship in the years following her kidnapping."She would scrub herself until she was red raw. She would change her clothes multiple times a day.
"Observing this and seeing how this girl who had been this wonderful, vivacious person, to see she was broken was so difficult."She didn't want to go anywhere or see anybody." In an interview she gave with the BBC prior to her death, Ms Slater said she had even struggled to use a wheelie bin."I wouldn't have one in the house [at first] because that's what Sams kept me in," she said."I've rebuilt my life to a certain extent but there are still bits of me that I've lost."I'm still here, I'm still on my own, I'm still single. You do feel quite cheated.
Stephen Regel, a trauma therapist who has worked with survivors of trauma both in the NHS and with Victim Support Homicide Service said that while Stephanie had told her story over and over in interviews and in presentations she did with the police, she had probably not come to terms with it.Stacey Kettner, Stephanie's friend, said she never came to terms with what had happened"They're not really processing what happened.
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