Post Traumatic Stress In Rape Victims

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Rape Victims
“I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with. I am Outcast” (Anderson 4). In the novel Speak, the main character is raped at a party; this action continues today even though the book was written almost two decades ago. Rape victims have a higher chance of having post traumatic stress disorder in their lifetime than any other type of victim (Kilpatrick). Most rape victims suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, which can cause life long inner pain, even though some show varying degrees of symptoms. Rape victims are tormented from their own experiences, but survivors all have the same indicators from their actions.
Victims remember events from incident that occurred (Sexual) .They try to avoid thoughts of the episode but sometimes they get nightmares of it while trying to sleep (Sexual). A study that examined post traumatic stress disorder symptoms among women who were raped found that almost all women experienced these symptoms during two weeks immediately after the rape (Sexual). Nine months later about thirty out of hundred women were still disclosed this pattern of symptoms still. Sexual assault occurs more than people think (Sexual). The victim is held against their own will; there is more than one way (Sexual). Victims can be pressured, bribed, or even manipulated (Sexual). Some can be abused into having intercourse against their will (Sexual). Sometimes women are taken advantage of when drunk or unaware of their own actions but then they can be a threat to themselves (Sexual). The effects of the stress disorder can negatively influences the body and in the most conservative study people with post traumatic stress disorder are two to four times more likely than those without post traumatic stress disorder to have any other psychiatric disorder. Humans hate feeling powerless, especially to their own species actions’(Bloom
Women are be easily startled by sudden outbursts (Post). If a female hears a certain voice, emotions can become expressed (Post). There are three main symptoms though which are re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal (Post). Symptoms may come soon after the trauma or occur later in life (Post Survivors). An indicator can come up again when faced with another trauma especially in extreme stressful times as well as indicators that can pop up after being faced with another source of trauma (Post Survivors). Victims tend to pretend the phenomenon never happened and they have an inability to recall about the attack, like denial and receive a feeling of numbness, detachment or "unfairness" about the events (Post Survivors). A lack of emotion or inability to feel love or care about people in their life and continually occurs continually (Post Survivors). A lack of concentration and deep embarrassment or shame may happen if people around the victim and discover about the rape (Post Survivors). The victim gains bitterness and hatred for the rapist through time (Post Survivors). Flashbacks occur of memories about the traumatic event and the victim begins to tell themselves that their a survivor and not a victim (Post Survivors). Soon they start to return to reality using the 5 senses: sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste (Post Survivors). Survivors commence to look at items around the room in a