What Would You Call This?

[ComingUndone]

Good to know. Hopefully I will be able to help my friend with what everyone has shared. Thanks all.

 

[anthony]

Hm, I always thought people with past abuse always just tried to avoid it.

A nasty part of abuse is that the person often requires to be re-abused constantly in order to feel... which is why its not unusual that a stripper, for example, endured childhood abuse and now works in a high risk industry for sexual abuse. Its like a dare. Not all, but certainly the majority have always statistically proven this. Escorts the same, typically childhood / sexual abuse at some point, then drugs, etc... all coping mechanisms / behaviours.

It is like a soldier with PTSD, they feel more comfortable in a war zone than in a civilian environment, as the risky environment makes them feel more sane, more normal, than the civilian environment where they are otherwise feeling as an outcast.

Not everyone who has been abused though gets PTSD, even if they have a coping mechanism. It is estimated at around 60% of trauma sufferers will show Posttraumatic Stress symptoms after a traumatic event, though that figure quickly declines to around 20% - 30% where it impedes their life, then that drops again to less than 10% over the course of 6 - 12 months reflecting those more likely to have lifetime PTSD, however; over the following years that drops off again to more around 5% - 7% lifetime PTSD. Some countries are much higher, some are much lower... that is the average. Even these figures are subjective, as some countries stopped releasing statistical mental health collective data, as it can be used as a negative to demonstrate internal country issues.

 

[Kintsugi]

It is estimated at around 60% of trauma sufferers will show Posttraumatic Stress symptoms after a traumatic event, though that figure quickly declines to around 20% - 30% where it impedes their life, then that drops again to less than 10% over the course of 6 - 12 months reflecting those more likely to have lifetime PTSD, however; over the following years that drops off again to more around 5% - 7% lifetime PTSD. Some countries are much higher, some are much lower... that is the average. Even these figures are subjective, as some countries stopped releasing statistical mental health collective data, as it can be used as a negative to demonstrate internal country issues.

It is very true that not everyone who is abused will develop PTSD. However, I understand that these percentages differ based on the age at which the abuse occurred (higher percentage the earlier it happened, though I think the percentage drops at 2yrs or younger. Don't quote me on this. When researching this issue, it was easy to find studies that explain this with empirical evidence from reliable sources.