Traumas Of Sexual Abuse Teenagers Face

                                                         INTRODUCTION

One thing about sexual abuse is that it leaves the victim traumatized, even long after the abuse have taken place. Some adults are still trUaumatied as a result of a sex abuse that happened while they were teenagers.

Here are some of the traumas sexually abuse teens face:

Psychological problems:

Some teens after been sexually abused experoence fears, panic attacks, sleeping problems, nightmares, irritability, outbursts of anger and sudden shock reactions when being touched.

While some experience little confidence, low self-respect and respect for their own body may change.

Alsosome of them start indulging in behaviours that are harful to the body such as addiction to alcohol and other substances, excessive work or sports, depression, self-destruction and prostitution.

Social problems:

Have little confidence in other people.

Fear of loss of control in relationships.

Sexual problem:

When they eventually become adults and get married, while making love problems often occur. The partner may be confused by a certain remark, touch or behaviour that brings back memories of the abuse.

Victims sometimes don't want to make love at all anymore or make love less.

Sexual related problems may occur, together with pain while making love, not wanting to make love and problems in getting aroused. Problems with the orgasm and coming also occur.

Physical complaints:

Abdominal pain, pain while making love, menstrual pain, intestinal complaints, stomach ache, nausea, headache, back pain, painful shoulders, in short all kinds of chronic pain may occur. The pain is often inexplicable.

Eating disorders often occur in sexually abused people. I heard a story of a lady who became obessed as a result of eating disorder that stated after she sexually abused.

When the patients, in reaction to a harmful event, disordered for more than a month in such a way that they can't go to school, can't work, isolate themselves or experience other negative consequences, one can talk about a post-traumatic stress syndrome. This disorder originates in reaction to a very harmful event and has three characteristic symptoms:

1. Denial and repression
2. Alternating with re-experiencing,
3. And they are always over irritated.

Denial and repression ; they deny or repress the harmful event(s): they don't want to talk about or avoid certain situations. At an older age, memory of sexual abuse is often completely suppressed, but can sometimes be recovered in psychotherapy.

It is, however, difficult to determine if such recovered memories are memories of real experiences of memories of dreams or imagined events. This difficulty can be a problem if you want to prosecute the abuser, but it is not a problem for treatment using modern psychotherapeutic methods.

Re-experiencing ; they experience the event(s) again; unintentionally they are confronted with memories of the abuse, for example through nightmares, sudden memories or unexplainable physical problems.

Over irritation ; they are easily affected, hot-tempered, jumpy, excessively alert and don't fall asleep easily.

CONCLUSION

Please let's stop teens sex abuse. the post-traumatic stress syndrome is too much and may even last a life time. For those who are victims of sex abuse, be encourage. It is not the end of the world. If need be you ca consult a psychotherapist.