Abused and suicidal, this is the
situation that so many people find themselves in, the numbers of
people who are suffering from Post traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)
due to an abuse is astronomical, researchers show that abuses are one
of the major factors in developing future clinical depression. Sadly,
for those who have suffered abuses being abused and suicidal go hand
and hand.
The far reaching effects of abuse
The abuses from childhood carry into
adulthood often manifesting itself as clinical depression, anger and
even suicide thought, many are never the same again. The numbers of
people suffering maltreatment are increasing according to health
records.
According to U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services statistics for 2006, approximately 905,000
U.S. children were found to have been maltreated that year, with 16%
of them reported as physically abused (the remainder having suffered
sexual abuse or neglect.
In other studies, it's been noted
that approximately 14-43% of children have experienced at least one
traumatic abusive event prior to adulthood.
Those who are abused and suicidal must
understand that the brain has been changed from the PTSD,this can
manifest itself as mental illness in adults
Researchers at a major University
found that Post traumatic stress from abuses changed the brain's
white matter, this is extremely alarming when we think of a young
child’s growing brain, these changes can lead to various
mental disorders
"We found that adolescents with
maltreatment history who had disrupted white matter tracts during the
initial recruitment were more likely to develop depressive and
addictive disorders," said Huang of the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Centre's Advanced Imaging Research Centre.
We can see how the abused can easily
end up as suicidal adults, all child abuses must be met with the
stronger punishment of the law, it is on par with murder due to the
lifetime effects on the young brain. We repeat the abuser should be
treated as a murder under the law with a similar sentencing.
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