Articles on Sexual Abuse

How to Stop Dissociation After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who are abused as children learn how to use dissociation to survive. This means that they internally fragment themselves so they can avoid feeling painful emotions. While dissociation is handy in an abusive environment, it is maladaptive ... more »

How to Stop Feeling Shame After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Shame is a hallmark of childhood abuse. Most adult survivors of childhood abuse struggle with feelings of shame. Shame causes abuse survivors to loathe themselves and feel unworthy of receiving kindness or compassion from anyone. The adult ... more »

How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexual Abuse

By eHow Parenting Editor

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Child sexual abuse is a serious problem today. Talk to your child about this issue and help him or her understand how to respond if it ever occurs... more »

How to Trust After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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The inability to trust is a hallmark of childhood abuse. After being betrayed as a child, it is hard for the adult survivor of childhood abuse to risk trusting again. Many adult survivors of childhood abuse question whether learning how to trust ... more »

How to Address Unmet Emotional Needs After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Abused children have many emotional needs that go unmet. Their abusers shatter the hope of meeting basic needs, such as the need to trust, to feel safe or to feel worthy of love. For abused children living in very abusive households, numerous ... more »

How to Begin Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse as an Adult

By Ursula Anderson

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More and more adults are finding, not only that they were sexually abused as children, but that they still suffer from the aftereffects of such abuse. Sometimes children repress memories of abuse and do not remember them until adulthood; some ... more »

How to Cope with Anxiety After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Many adult survivors of child abuse struggle with anxiety. Survivors of child abuse often have trouble relaxing and face issues like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In many cases, the anxiety is fueled by repressed anger. Because the anger ... more »

How to Cure Insomnia After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who suffered child abuse often struggle with insomnia as adults. Because abused children were awakened repeatedly from sleep to be violated in their beds, abused children often grow into adults who feel unsafe when they try to fall asleep ... more »

How to Deal With Flashbacks After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who were abused as children often struggle with flashbacks as adults. A flashback is a memory that the brain stored in a different way because of the terror surrounding the event. In most cases, the information in the flashback was ... more »

How to Decide Whether to Confront Abuser After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Part of healing from child abuse is deciding whether to confront your abuser as an adult. Some people feel a strong need to confront their abuser face-to-face, while others choose to send a confrontational letter. Confronting an abuser is not a ... more »

How to Get the Facts About Child Sexual Abuse

By eHow Health Editor

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Most parents worry that their child could become a victim of sexual abuse. Learn as much as you can about this problem and what you can do to prevent it from happening to your son or daughter... more »

How to Get the Facts About Date Rape

By eHow Health Editor

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Avoid becoming a victim of date rape by arming yourself with the facts... more »

How to Heal Children After Forced Animal Cruelty

By FaithAllen

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Some abusers torment their child victims by forcing them to do actions that harm animals. Sometimes this involves physically harming an animal. Other times, it involves forcing sexual acts between a child and an animal. In both cases, the child ... more »

How to Heal From Ritual Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Ritual child abuse is the most severe form of child abuse from which a child abuse survivor can recover. While all forms of child abuse are serious, ritual child abuse is inflicted by people who have mastered the art of trying to break a child's ... more »

How to Heal Repressed Anger After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Children who are abused feel an enormous amount of anger and rage. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is not safe for abused children to express their anger, so they learn how to repress it instead. These children grow into adult survivors of ... more »

How to Heal the Inner Child After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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When most people think about an inner child, they think about the joy from childhood that they left behind as they entered the adult world. For the adult survivor of child abuse, the inner child is much different. Rather than leaving behind a ... more »

How to Help a Friend Who Has Been Date Raped

By eHow Health Editor

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If your friend has just been raped, she may need your encouragement and support to get through the next few days... more »

How to Hold Onto Faith After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Many adult survivors of child abuse wrestle with holding onto their faith, especially as they work through the healing process. As the child abuse survivor faces the enormity of the damage inflicted by the abuse, he can have trouble believing in ... more »

How to Identify a Potential Date Rapist

By Sheila Wilkinson

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A date rapist can be anyone—a stranger, but more often someone you know and even trust. You can’t pick them out of a crowd, but these predators share certain characteristics. Knowing these may help you prevent trouble later on... more »

How to Love Self After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Most adult survivors of childhood abuse have a very hard time learning to love themselves. They see themselves through their abusers' eyes, and they hate what they see. Learning how to love yourself is the foundation for healing from childhood ... more »

How to Rid a Child's Shame after Forced Animal Cruelty

By FaithAllen

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Children whose abuse involved animals often struggle with deep levels of shame. Whether the animal's involvement was in being harmed or in being used in a sexual manner, the child walks away from the experience feeling subhuman. The child can ... more »

How to Set a Relationship Boundary After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who were abused as children were taught that they had no relationship boundaries. They had no say over what their abusers did to their bodies or souls. As adults, survivors of childhood abuse often have trouble setting a relationship ... more »

How to Survive the Childhood Abuse Healing Process

By FaithAllen

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The process of healing from childhood abuse is extremely painful. After a lifetime of feeling numb, the abuse survivor must choose to feel all of the anger, grief, terror and pain that he repressed throughout his traumatic childhood. These ... more »

How to Forgive an Abuser After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who have been abused as children often balk at the thought of forgiving their abusers. Few abusers, if any, deserve forgiveness. However, every abuse survivor deserves to be freed from her past. Forgiveness is the key to letting go of the ... more »

How to Heal Emotional Flashbacks After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Adult survivors of child abuse often struggle with emotional flashbacks. An emotional flashback happens when something in your life today triggers an out of proportion emotional reaction based upon something that happened in the past. For ... more »

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