The most profound damage to a child's psyche when abused is the self-blame, shame, and the further often lifelong compensations an abuse survivor may automatically engage in order to wrest as much protection and care from even an abuser. It is these deep, no doubt limbic adaptations to abuse that so often drive the survivor to damaging self-soothing behaviors: eating disorders, self harming/cutting, the myriad addictions, and the lifelong adoption of a victim stance. So, the true extent of the damage to a developing child's entire personality is not even touched on in this however well meaning video. As a retired psychiatrist who treated hundreds of childhood abuse survivors during my 42yr practice, only at 76yo to finally realize that I, too, am a childhood sexual abuse survivor, this is a huge and ongoing problem in our "toxic culture" (Gabor Mate's term). I see today that a $21B merger deal has been made between the horrific WWE and UFC. Need any further evidence of the problem of violence in our society? And child sexual abuse is violence against the helpless, the worst possible kind. Stress R Us
The most profound damage to a child's psyche when abused is the self-blame, shame, and the further often lifelong compensations an abuse survivor may automatically engage in order to wrest as much protection and care from even an abuser. It is these deep, no doubt limbic adaptations to abuse that so often drive the survivor to damaging self-soothing behaviors: eating disorders, self harming/cutting, the myriad addictions, and the lifelong adoption of a victim stance. So, the true extent of the damage to a developing child's entire personality is not even touched on in this however well meaning video. As a retired psychiatrist who treated hundreds of childhood abuse survivors during my 42yr practice, only at 76yo to finally realize that I, too, am a childhood sexual abuse survivor, this is a huge and ongoing problem in our "toxic culture" (Gabor Mate's term). I see today that a $21B merger deal has been made between the horrific WWE and UFC. Need any further evidence of the problem of violence in our society? And child sexual abuse is violence against the helpless, the worst possible kind. Stress R Us