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Preventing Emotional Abuse

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Throughout many years we have heard about all of the type’s abuse there are. The one that is very common but isn’t easily detected is emotional abuse, also known as psychological abuse or mental abuse. This specific abuse can happen to anyone at any time or place. Because emotional abuse is hard to identify everyone needs to learn how to prevent it from happening. Not only is it happening to others but it could be happing to you as well and you may not even notice it. Emotional abuse is when the abuser is causing the other person to have psychological trauma, anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress. The victims usually will suffer from self-esteem and personality change. As the abuse keeps getting worse the victim can start having …show more content…

This is because the parent or parents may have been abused when they were children. They keep the cycle going because this is the only parenting style they know. The parent even be under a lot of stress or just because of poor parenting skills. When a parent is under a lot of stress they do tend to take it out on their children instead of having a better solution (What is the Effect of Emotional Abuse on Children?). The parent may also blame the child about everything in their live. For example, they may something along the lines like “you’re the reason why I can’t go out and have a great time with my friends”. At this point the victim will probably start becoming sad or blame themselves and just agree with what they are being told (What is the Effect of Emotional Abuse on Children?). Those hurtful words make an impact on every person who have been emotionally abused. As the emotional abuse gets worse it can lead to the victim hitting a depression stage. The depression stage is where the victim will have hopelessness. Depression is also one the major factors of suicide. When children are being emotionally abused and have depression they can have suicidal thoughts and may even attempt it. Children usually don’t come to the suicidal option but teen do. They feel like it’s the only escape to get away from the abuse (What is the effect of Emotional …show more content…

These scars can show up when they are in a real relationship or when they start to have a family of their own. The abuser has hurt them so bad they may have thoughts that their partner could abuse them. Or when they have kids they are scared that they are going to hurt them like their parents hurt them. If the victim does start abusing their children emotionally, it’s not because they are stressed it’s because that is the only parenting style they know. Not only are they a victim of abuse but so are their children and they are now considered the

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