Drug Abuse

Question by Cheyenne is SHOCKED by your accusations: What Are the Psychological Effects Of Child Abuse?
I have a few scenarios. please try and explain the probable outcome of each of these “abuses”.

1. sexual abuse?

2. physical abuse, like smothering and bloody lips (example)?

3. abandonment of a father figure?

4. being locked in house for months in a very rural area far away from any contact with other people? (also includes educational neglect and no friendships or contact with other child)

5. being convinced by family members to kill yourself, OR having a parent that thinks your lying and dares you?

Best answer:

Answer by Edward The Original
well this sort of treatment is likely to lead to depression, anxiety around other people fearing that they will treat you the same way. and low self esteem. it is natural to feel like blaming yourself for being treated like this somehow thinking it is your fault, however it is not.

Answer by Twister
These are all specific instances obviously, but I can tell you that research states that sexual abuse leads to an increased risk in every adolescent “risk” :drugs, pregnancy, eating disorders you name it

Physical abuse: can lead in adolescence and later in life to an individual becoming abusive themselves or withdrawn.

Abandonment in the case of 3 and 4 and extreme psychological abuse is to complex to make generalizations about IMO

The most important thing I think is that these are trends, no person is destined from their past. Certain people are also what is called “psychologically resilient” to certain traumas, which can come from genetics, a stable adult outside of the family or faith. It really is a case by case thing, but the things you are describing are all bad, and in some way have a profound effect on persons that experience them

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