Fantasizing about killing my rapist
It's painful to even talk about this.
I was raped recently. About a year ago, by my boyfriend of the time. He'd been molesting me for a long time leading up to the actual rape. The rape itself wasn't violent. He just tricked me into it by saying he wasn't going to put it in and then doing it anyway (I was a virgin when he did this). I stayed with him for a long time afterward because I was stupid and told myself that since he'd promised to marry me that he had a right to my body. When he dumped me I got a nasty shock and the first thing on my mind was how he'd made me have sex when I didn't want to and after I had managed to "forgive" him for that he was still leaving me. The counselor I saw afterward had to explain to me that he had raped me, and I have refused all contact with him since then--the only healthy thing, I think.
I was angry with him for a long time but tried not to dwell on revenge fantasies or wish bad things on him. I'm a Christian, and I also just don't believe in being a hateful person, so I think I wanted to just move on with my life and not let him control it. But recently...
My best friend, knowing what he did to me, has started hanging out with him again for her own selfish reasons. This makes me feel crazy at times. She knows I don't want her to and she does it anyway. I have cut myself over this, just once. And it has aggravated my anxiety and seizure disorders, causing me a great deal of stress. But the truth is I want to do a lot more than just cut myself over it. And also...
I've recently fantasized about killing my ex-bf/rapist. I've gone so far as to imagine how I would go about doing it. At times I hate him so much it feels like my chest is going to explode, and I imagine shooting him after explaining why I'm doing it. I also want to punish my best friend for her continued association with him (I can't just cut her out of my life so don't tell me to do that, she's like a sister to me), but in less direct ways. I imagine carving his initials into my arm so that she'd have to see them whenever she's around me, or cutting my face up really bad and telling her why.
I've also had issues with being terrified of men, sex, and sexual feelings since the rape and am sometimes so distressed by unwanted sexual arousal that I consider mutilating my genitals.
I was going to counseling for a while but now I can't afford it anymore. I don't know if other rape victims have such violent feelings about this kind of thing or not. (important to note: I would not actually act on these fantasies of murder, although the self-harm stuff is more likely.) Am I normal?