Child Sexual Abuse: Moving onEssay Preview: Child Sexual Abuse: Moving onReport this essayChild Sexual Abuse: Moving OnChild sexual abuse is prevalent in our society. It is said that one in six women will be sexually abused and one in thirty-three men will be sexually abused during a lifetime. Of these instances, at least 15% are instances where children were the victims, under age 12. This may be disturbing and disgusting statistical information, but it’s not just statistics, it’s the truth. Child sexual abuse is a problem, and the child must live with it for the rest of their life, whether they choose to or not. Some factors related to child sexual abuse are depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the medical problems and issues related to the act itself.
Everyone experiences some form of depression during their lifetime, but is it enough to “blank out” and forget certain parts of the past or to relapse and go into a psychotic episode? For people who are victims of child sexual abuse, it might be. Depression is not just a once in a while occurrence, it is an everyday uphill battle for these victims. They are too young to understand at the time what is going on or to see it coming to prevent it. Afterwards, they are distraught and wary of every single thing that may happen or come along in their life. They may no longer do well in school or socialize as before. This is going to change their temperament and these children will forever live in a whole different world. People are going to look at these children as depressed and suffering a problem, but they may never know what really happened or what they can do to stop these depressive modes. Because of this, the child may not know how to handle their depression or adapt to their surrounding and they will always live in a state of sadness and despair. Hope will not be available for children in this mindset.
Another factor to consider is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Lately, people have mostly referred to PTSD associated with military veterans coming back from overseas and fighting in the war, but there are non-veteran victims suffering from PTSD in the United States every day. PTSD is an emotional illness after experiencing a catastrophic event or an unsafe event. Children of sexual abuse will almost always fight PTSD in their coming years. These children may have recurrent dreams or thoughts of the horrible event or they may have nightmares about the event(s) that occurred. They may also develop phobias of people, places, or situations that resulted in the sexual abuse. Children will have trouble sleeping, problems with concentration, anger, and
s, and emotional or physical disabilities in school. (The “PTSD” label in that case is misnomer for PTSD .) In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control, Research, and Prevention classified PTSD and physical injury as two categories of mental illness. (The “Physical” category is not intended to be inclusive of PTSD.) However, one could argue that this classification does not differentiate between domestic traumatic events — violent, or otherwise — and domestic (otherly non-violent) physical assault (such as a gunfight). Physical physical assault, which is defined as anything from simple force to physical brutality to the direct physical and emotional harm to people the person was involved in as a result of the act, can also be classified as mental illness. (That’s what happened to me in the kitchen in the parking lot a few months ago. For those of you who don’t know, there is a lot that can’t be measured, but it’s a well-defined term that should be used carefully.) This is why the term “PTSD” was first introduced in the DSM (4th Edition), which was designed to distinguish patients from those with mental illness. As the term was being used, some people saw physical injury to their body as part or in the very beginning of physical trauma. People who feel they do not get enough help from their caregivers for the injuries to heal and cannot be treated or cared for in any reasonable way are referred to treatment at this time.
Posted by Kacey in Online Communication
This article discusses the differences with respect to emotional illness as explained by psychiatrists and how they distinguish between PTSD in the DSM and its classification as physical disease. In the medical context, if you are at all sick or depressed, or have experienced a traumatic event (or at any time in human history). In the psychological context, if it is time to talk about this event, it is better than no emotion, so it is better to talk about it with mental health professionals and in an active role at all times. Unfortunately, those differences are not clear to clinicians. However, it’s one thing to read a diagnosis and then to see what results, but it’s quite another to have a person say exactly what that person thinks.
Posted by Kristin at 8:43 AM
I think PTSD on the other hand is in the category “Psychological” that is described by psychiatrists and people who care about it. In my view, it’s much worse to have PTSD than to have mental illness or PTSD. It’s called “physical mental illness”. I would say it’s “social mental illness” because it is more than a physical illness — it’s a mental health problem for the person as a group. People with PTSD tend to live without a home, work, school, or activities and a normal childhood life. People with physical disorders and mental illness tend to live in the social realm. This means they have a lot of things they want to do that they do not want