Can sexual abuse in early childhood affect someone in adolescence and adulthood?
How/why?
Answer:
Being introduced to sex at such an early age dramatically changes a person's life. Why? Because it is extremely confusing and difficult for a child to process. Once they have, they realize their trust and body has been violated and are even more confused. It is a traumatic experience, with or without recollection.
How? Most people either need more sex in adult hood to deal with this or they don't want to have sex at all. Some victims may even repeat the abuse that they experienced as a child in a means to understand or receive vengeance or closure on their predator.
probably??
It affects me. And I have very little recollection of the abuse. I think it was so traumatic that my mind tried to forget all of it. I honestly didn't remember any of it until I was well into adulthood. Your subconscious remembers everything even if you have know conscious memory of it.
Yes, because your mind has a way of blocking out bad memories but they are always available to your subconscious mind. You may make decisions later in life without even knowing it. Although remembering the experience is by far worse.
I think yes. Even if there is no memory...a least conciously. I think that the memory could be suppressed within the subconcious, and thereby causing the person to react in certain ways when presented with sexual situations. They may not even know what's causing it, but they could be shy, and distant from intimate relationships or encounters. One's suppressed memory could also indirectly fuel aggressive and violent sexual behavior. How is usually just by trigger mechanism. Things that may be familiar to the suppressed memory can trigger a sense of fear, dread, sorrow, anger, etc.
Why? Well that could be a much longer answer...but I think it has to do with the body's idea that when presented with a similar situation that resembles a scenario where the person was abused, the body and it's emotions will naturally react to protect itself and the individual from a repitition of the previous encounter.
sure it can, in some cases the abused get caught in a cycle and abuse their own children, sometimes there are issues with relationships..it depends on the type and severity of the abuse and how the individual reacted to it, everyone is different.
yes it can because it is still in there just hidden and even if they dont know it them may feel it. it is hard to explain but its a feeling of worthlessness or something that just happens when something like that happens
Yes it can. If you believe that you were sexually abuse as a child you should seek out a qualified hypnotist and try to bring the issues to the surface where you can deal with it constructively.
The symptoms of sexual abuse as a child may include sexual promiscuity, substance abuse, the inability to maintain close relationships and low self esteem, to name a few.
Please seek help in you truly believe you were victimized.
I think yes
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