I personally have seen the results of these consequences. Emotional disorders and anxiety often consume these individuals. In some situations, these result in the individual taking their own lives to escape the ever present depression. I am a survivor of child abuse. I have often thought that it would be so much easier to just end it all rather than deal with the sometimes overwhelming anxiety that associates to the abuse.
My experiences have been horrifying. People who endure dissonance always seem to come out shaped or changed by their experiences. The consequences the individuals face from encountering conflict forever transform their thoughts, beliefs and their lives. Quite often the noticeable physical damage an individual has been through can conceal the emotional trauma they are suffering. The physical injury gives survivors something to hide behind.
I have always wondered what it would be like to have a family member with a personality disorder or if I had a personality disorder myself. I cannot fathom the thought of how horrific it must be. The struggles and the devastation it brings simply tear apart a person into shreds. But I do know one thing about it all, and that is that recovery is always possible. This book is about a young woman suffering and trying to overcome her borderline personality disorder.
Introduction When an athlete sustains an injury while playing the sport that they love, it can have a debilitating effect. Depending on the injury, not only can they be forced to miss a significant amount of playing time (which can affect their livelihood) while they go through rehab, they also lose a huge piece of themselves. The physical part of an injury is only half the battle athletes have to face. Thoughts, feelings and spirit all contribute to sport performance, and are important parts of every athlete (Brehm, 2008). Injuries cause extreme pain, limit movements and depending on the severity, can require a large amount of time for rehab.
“Trauma is the response to any event that shatters your safe world so that it’s no longer a place of refuge. Trauma is more than a state of crisis. It is a normal reaction to abnormal events that overwhelm a person’s ability to adapt to life—where you feel powerless” (Wright, N.H. 2011, p. 189). Trauma can come from natural disaster, death of a loved one, sexual or physical abuse, divorce, terminal illness and many other things, but in this paper the focus was on sexual abuse of adolescence. Adolescence is a delicate time in one’s life because it is the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood and is a time when a young person goes through the stage of identity-versus-identity confusion.
In many different tragic cases, this type of physical and emotional stress can really take a toll on a person so much that the ending results are suicide for the victim. There had been so many times that I had thought about suicide and that I had got so close but I was just too scared. Many can't say that about wanting to take their own life but I was honestly scared. There was times when I just didn't care and I would get so close and then I would get anxious and nervous and just step back from the edge of taking my own life. There are so many signs and symptoms of children getting bullied and I personally have experienced all of them.
Some people suffer more painful experiences than others, and abuse is one of many possible causes of extreme emotional pain. Some people get more love and support from their families and friends than others, and families in which abuse occurs tend to provide less of the love and support needed to recover from abuse. But families in which abuse does not happen can also experience significant problems, and can make it hard for family members to deal with the inevitable painful experiences in life. A great deal of research has been conducted, and continues to be conducted, on how such factors determine outcomes for those abused in childhood. Factors that increase the likelihood of negative outcomes have been referred to as "risk factors," and ones that decrease the likelihood of negative outcomes as "protective factors."
There is no person who is immune to the effects of trauma. Trauma impacts on the individual, families, and societies by disrupting developments that are healthy, severely affecting relationships, and this contributes to mental health issues which includes domestic violence, substance abuse, and child abuse. The price is paid by everyone whenever a community creates multi-generations of individuals with untreated trauma by loss of wages, an increase in crime, and threat to the families’ stability. Becoming ‘trauma-informed’ basically means recognizing the fact that people normally have a lot of different kinds of trauma in their lives. Individuals who have been traumatized require support and understanding from the ones around them.
Traumatic events that occur in your early life have a way of coming back to haunt you. Things like mental illness from childhood such as bulling, physical abuse and physiological harm are all things that can impact you in a way that makes your childhood reality become and control your adult way of life. When this happens you find yourself becoming more and more worried about what has previously gone by as opposed to what lies ahead for you in the future. Your interaction with others will suffer due to your lack of ability to get over what has already occurred previously in your life time. The world is a cruel place for those suffering from mental illnesses, with life pushing and twisting you into all different paths, but there is help out there.
Hypertension and stress go hand in hand; stress has a direct effect on hypertension. Stress is the body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response. The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental, and emotional response. Most people give difference answers to what stress really is because it affects their body’s differently. What is stressful for one person may be pleasurable or have little effect on them and we all react to stress differently.