Sexual Abuse: Symptoms and debt

The effects of early sexual abuse last well into adulthood, affecting relationships, work, family and life in general. Adult incest survivors show some of the following symptoms: anxiety to sleep alone, nightmares, night terrors
Poor body image, poor self-image in general
Drug, alcohol addiction and compulsive behaviors, obsessions
Self-abuse, skin-carving (and addictive)
Suicidal thoughts
Phobias, panicAttacks, anxiety disorders
Difficulties with anger / rage
Problems with trust, intimacy, relationships
Problems with boundaries, control, renunciation
Pattern of re-victimization, not in a position to say "no"
Signs of post traumatic stress disorder
Sexual Abuse War; it my fault

Certain themes recur repeatedly. For example, usually the victim himself to blame for the sexual abuse, even if they were two or three years old at the time of the event. Guilt and shamebe raised, along with intense feelings of rage8

If the sexual abuse abused by an individual of the same sex (ie, a man a boy), issues of sexual orientation was committed, tend to occur in the patient ("I have raped gay, after all, a man myself!"). Female victims are often sexually promiscuous lifestyles to develop in an effort to capture "the situation and bring it under their control. In other cases, largely cut off from all the individuals social or sexualInteractions in order to avoid the feared stimuli, and contact extremely isolated lives. The connection that is made for the victims of sex and pain (Love and humiliation, closeness and betrayal) is one to be especially disastrous.

Frequently, patients express and / or a certificate of conviction that the only way to be loved and cared for when they are abused ("I knew if I keep him not to hit me, I would always alone be "). Often, in the extreme, physical and sexual abuseeven regarded as a normal part of everyday life. Healthy boundaries are not for these people, so they are healthy relationships impossible. The victim is actually the feeling of loneliness or sadness respond by abusing themselves (such as self-mutilation) if the "significant other" is not available to do so.

Sexual abuse and guilt

One of the most difficult problems that arise is the memory, the experience of some persons to a certain amountphysical pleasure during a molestation or incest. This adds enormously to the feeling of guilt and "dirty" means. Thus, one of the goals of treatment of the survivors to normal physiological response to educate. The realization that their feelings are / were normal helps tremendously to alleviate the shame.

Even when individuals speak of their abuse group before treatment, any pleasurable aspects have been rejected as a rule. The opportunity to work with others in relationshiphave shared these feelings, as well as the experience of being part of the healing power of this form of therapy. The feeling of isolation, of being "differs from all over the world," begins to decline rapidly. It is disclosed only to the secrets and how to deal with the pain that survivors of sexual abuse and can go with their lives.