Research Different Types Of Child Abuse: Similar Consequences

[WillyKat]

Dead Link Removed

 

[Mit]

Thanks for this, I am trying to draw some comfort from it. I've long struggled to truly accept that my childhood experiences could have affected me as much as has been suggested by therapists, because my treatment was more akin to neglect, and for the most part (I hope) not intentionally abusive. Logically I want to accept I have been affected, but emotionally feel my traumas were not 'bad enough' because they didn't fit with my perceptions of what abuse really is.

Because I think this way I tend to beat myself up for the issues I have now, that can be linked to my childhood (I tend to believe I should have been able to cope, and accepting I was affected means admitting I was fundamentally weak).

So this research might help convince me that my childhood traumas were really bad enough to cause my problems. It's work in progress.

 

[caramelmix]

Thing is when a child is physically abused is that not also emotional abuse, can you physically abuse someone without emotional abuse along side of it. just a thought but I expect they go hand in hand.

 

[Queen Boudica]

They would go hand in hand. To me both in my childhood and the DV of my marriage, the emotional abuse mucked me up mentally the most. I think. Neglect is now well known to damage brain development in children. The research on the Romanian orphans left in cots they were fed and looked after and not beaten but no affection or bonding they had smaller less developed brains. The stimulation, eye contact, serve and return interactions between adult and child are fundamental for brain development. Even just sticking a child in front of a TV will reduce these fundamental interactions and could affect brain development. Early childhood is the time when the brain develops most rapidly and all the neurological connections are forming and the interactions are crucial to form these neural connections, so neglect hinders healthy brain development. May not be intentional but same result.