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Unexplained bruises, cuts, burns, or other injuries
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You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
Lana Steiner
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You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
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What is Abuse?
Abuse is cruelty, violence, or demeaning or invasive behavior inflicted on someone by another person. Abusers can cause physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional harm. Anyone, of any age, gender, race, or background can be a victim of abuse.
It is estimated that child abuse or neglect impacts one in 7 children in the United States per year and that one in four women and one in seven men have been injured by an intimate partner.
Types
Abuse can manifest in different capacities, which include:
- Domestic abuse
- Discriminatory abuse
- Digital abuse
- Emotional and verbal abuse
- Financial abuse
- Neglect
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Workplace abuse
What is Child Abuse?
Child abuse is a type of neglect. In this abuse, a minor is not given enough basic resources to survive. Or they are not given emotional support. Some forms of child abuse also include:
- Using violence in the house
- Ignoring the basic needs of the child
- Child feeling insecure and unsafe in the house
- Forcing child to earn
What is Conservatorship Abuse?
Physical Abuse
Physical abuse involves one person injuring the body of another person and can be inflicted on a person of any age and within any type of relationship. Physical abuse that occurs within a marriage or among partners that live together is called domestic violence.
Types of physical abuse include:
- Shaking
- Hitting
- Throwing items
- Hair-pulling
- Slapping
- Kicking
- Restraining
- Using a weapon, like a knife or a gun
Emotional Abus
Psychological or emotional abuse is when one person purposely harms the mental well-being of another person in a non-physical way, sometimes referred to as nonphysical abuse.
An emotional abuser uses the following tactics:
- Humiliation
- Harassment
- Rejection
- Isolation from other people in your life
- Control of where you go and what you do
- Withholding affection
It is common for victims of abuse to feel guilty. This can be the result of thoughts that they should have done something to prevent or stop the abuse, or that they did something wrong to deserve the abuse. Abuse is never the fault of the victim.
Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse involves sexual violence or exploitation, or forcing someone to engage in sexual activity against their will.
Forms of sexual abuse include:
- Rape
- Forcing someone to watch pornography or taking pictures of them in sexual poses
- Forcing someone to dress in a suggestive manner
- Threatening to withhold something if someone does not have sex with you
Financial Abuse
Financial or material abuse is the misuse or stealing of money, assets, or belongings of another person for personal gain, sometimes by coercion, threats, or deception.
You may be experiencing financial abuse if your partner or caregiver does the following:
- Controls your money
- Steals from you
- Refuses to contribute to household expenses
Digital Abuse
Someone who engages in digital abuse exerts control using social media, texting, and other forms of technology. Digital abuse is most common in dating relationships and especially affects teenagers.
Digital abuse may involve:
Cyberbullying
- Demanding to know passwords
- Sexting (nonconsensual)
- Controlling social media use
Stalking
Stalking is a type of harassment that involves keeping tabs on another person’s whereabouts to an excessive degree, often causing the person to fear for their safety.
Stalking behaviors include:
Lingering near someone’s home, school, or office
- Sending unwanted gifts, texts, or emails
- Monitoring a person’s phone calls or computer use,
- Uses hidden cameras or global positioning systems (GPS) to track someone’s location
What is Domestic Abuse?
Domestic abuse, also known as intimate partner violence, is inflicting harm to one’s partner. The harm may be physical or psychological. Some ways the victim is abused include:
- Making them weak
- Controlling their movement, choice, finances, etc.
- Isolating them
- Causing them physical and mental harm
- Gaslighting them
- Coercing them in different ways, especially sexually
- Stalking them
- Subjecting them to mental, emotional, financial, and physical abuse
Symptoms and Signs
Signs of physical abuse
- bruises, black eyes, welts, lacerations, and rope marks
- broken bones
- open wounds, cuts, punctures, untreated injuries in various stages of healing
- broken eyeglasses/frames, or any physical signs of being punished or restrained
- laboratory findings of either an overdose or under dose medications
- individual’s report being hit, slapped, kicked, or mistreated
- vulnerable adult’s sudden change in behavior
- the caregiver’s refusal to allow visitors to see a vulnerable adult alone
Signs of sexual abuse
- bruises around the breasts or genital area
- unexplained venereal disease or genital infections
- unexplained vaginal or anal bleeding
- torn, stained, or bloody underclothing
- an individual’s report of being sexually assaulted or raped
Signs of mental mistreatment/emotional abuse
- being emotionally upset or agitated
- being extremely withdrawn and non communicative or non responsive
- unusual behaviour usually attributed to dementia (e.g., sucking, biting, rocking)
- nervousness around certain people
- an individual’s report of being verbally or mentally mistreated
Signs of neglect
- dehydration, malnutrition, untreated bed sores and poor personal hygiene
- unattended or untreated health problems
- hazardous or unsafe living condition (e.g., improper wiring, no heat or running water)
- unsanitary and unclean living conditions.
- an individual’s report of being mistreated.
Causes
A strong predictor of domestic violence in adulthood is domestic violence in the household in which the person was reared. For instance, a child’s exposure to their father’s abuse of their mother is the strongest risk factor for transmitting domestic violence from one generation to the next. This cycle of domestic violence is difficult to break because parents have presented violence as the norm.
Individuals living with domestic violence in their households have learned that violence and mistreatment are the way to vent anger. Someone resorts to physical violence because:
- they have solved their problems in the past with violence,
- they have effectively exerted control and power over others through violence, and
- no one has stopped them from being violent in the past.
Some immediate causes that can set off a bout of domestic abuse are:
- stress
- provocation by the intimate partner
- economic hardship, such as prolonged unemployment
- depression
- desperation
- jealousy
- anger
Tips
Take deep breaths
Simply taking deep breaths really helps to keep me centred. I do this regularly. A former yoga teacher used to say that you can change your life through your breath. I’m now finding wisdom and truth in this simple exercise.
Walk
Moving the body helps to shift and relieve some of my stress. I find myself in a better headspace after a brisk walk and mentally, feel better prepared to cope with some of the madness in my life.
Create self-affirmations
Creating a list of self-affirmations can be very healing and serve as a powerful reminder that, despite the odds, I have survived. Some of my affirmations are that I am a survivor, compassionate, loving and resilient.
Write
Writing doesn’t come easy to me, as my brain seems to be in a permanent fog, but getting it out on paper seems to help reduce the weight of the burden I feel I’m carrying.
Hydrate
Drinking water or herbal tea reduces my tiredness, lifts my energy and makes me feel that I can achieve more.
Join a group
Being around people who have gone through similar experiences can be really useful.