Essay On Childhood Trauma
According to the CDC and Arizona State University childhood trauma has been shown to affect the victim throughout his or her entire life. Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic, even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. Childhood trauma is also a major contributor to the development of personality disorders later in life. In particular, borderline personality disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder, and the physiological malformations of the brain that are associated with those disorders. Still today doctors are not trained to routine screening and treatment, but there are many steps we can take
…show more content…
She was hospitalized because symptoms resembling a manic episode with suicidal thoughts were considered. when she was not even born her mother had divorced her father when she was 3 months pregnant and remarried someone 30 years older than her when she was only a year old. She was exposed to multiple physical and psychological abuse and neglect from her stepfather until she was 5 years old, them they institutionalized her to an orphanage. The physical and psychological abuse/neglect from her teachers and orderlies of the orphanage continued until she was 14. She attempted to frequently escape from the orphanage till she was 14 years old she then finally left and started living on the streets. She was raped when she was 15, following which she had given birth to a son. She was then physically sexaually abused multiple times after, and was raped two more times until she met her husband, and married at the age of 19. They had a son together but a foster family was assigned for him. Everything ultimately ended when she committed suicide at the age of 32. Due to her continuose physical and sexual trauma as a child she had multiple disorders including bipolar mood disorder, dissociative personality disorder, PTSD, somatization disorder, and borderline personality
She was hospitalized because symptoms resembling a manic episode with suicidal thoughts were considered. when she was not even born her mother had divorced her father when she was 3 months pregnant and remarried someone 30 years older than her when she was only a year old. She was exposed to multiple physical and psychological abuse and neglect from her stepfather until she was 5 years old, them they institutionalized her to an orphanage. The physical and psychological abuse/neglect from her teachers and orderlies of the orphanage continued until she was 14. She attempted to frequently escape from the orphanage till she was 14 years old she then finally left and started living on the streets. She was raped when she was 15, following which she had given birth to a son. She was then physically sexaually abused multiple times after, and was raped two more times until she met her husband, and married at the age of 19. They had a son together but a foster family was assigned for him. Everything ultimately ended when she committed suicide at the age of 32. Due to her continuose physical and sexual trauma as a child she had multiple disorders including bipolar mood disorder, dissociative personality disorder, PTSD, somatization disorder, and borderline personality