Introduction to Domestic Violence and Rape

Domestic violence may be a sort of abuse that happens within the house, between relations or couples. The typical image of violence involves an man perpetrator and a female victim, often his wife or girlfriend. However, there also are women perpetrators of violence, and men are sometimes victims. Really, any violence done by any family or group member towards another could qualify.

Domestic violence may take many forms. Destruction of property, psychological and emotional abuse, and physical and sexual abuse are all common forms. On the milder but still quite serious side, perpetrators of violence may threaten victims or use verbal put downs and bad name, plan to publically humiliate them, or play manipulative mind games. Abusers could also be act very jealously, and work to regulate victims' access to family and friends or employment. The abuse could also be extreme enough in order that the victim loses employment due to absenteeism or decreased productivity while at work, or is prevented from performing at all. In its most violent form, violence will involve actual physical and sexual violence, kidnapping of youngsters , torture or murder of pets, etc. Some victims are driven to suicide.

Rape may be a crime involving forced sexual intercourse , usually including sexual penetration, against the desire of the victim. Rape can occur within the context of ongoing violence (where a partner sexually assaults another partner against that partner's will), but it's going to even be perpetrated by aquaintances (e.g., date rape) or by strangers.

Domestic violence and rape are serious societal problems disproportionately focused on women. According the US Department of Justice, there are approximately 572,000 violent victimizations of girls by persons they're intimate annually. Only 49,000 similar complaints are filed by men. These official numbers are likely to seriously under-estimate the actual number of assaults made on men, however, as it is known that men tend not to report such assaults due to shame and fear of ridicule.

Consequences of Domestic Violence and Rape

In addition to the financial and social adjustment difficulties that are often related to removing one's self from an ongoing abuse situation, survivors of violence or rape can develop emotional and psychological concerns that last well after the physical injuries have healed. Memories of victimization could also be overwhelming, and return again and again, unbidden, to torture the victim long after actual victimization has passed. Victimization removes any illusion of safety that victims may need previously enjoyed. Self esteem and self-worth may have been damaged as well. Physical assaults may also have resulted in disfigurement or lingering chronic pain.

Being a victim of violence in and of itself isn't sufficient in itself to cause an individual to develop a psychological or affective disorder . However, being victimized often leaves people more susceptible to developing psychological disorders like post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and other anxiety disorders than they were before having been victimized. This is particularly so if the violence occurred while the victim was a toddler , or still forming his or her personality in significant ways. Each individual will react differently, even to highly similar victimization events. Some but not all, victims of violence will develop disorders while others will emerge relatively unscathed.

Just as there's not any definitive disorder that a victim of violence or rape will develop, there's also not any definitive way that victims should answer having been hurt. Most all means of grieving and dealing with having been victimized are okay, apart from ways in which might end in self-harm or harm towards other.

Help is Available

Literally many people are victims of violence and/or rape. Many of them have gone to some lengths to undertake to assist others (such as yourself) get over such victimization. Information and help are available to help you in getting out of abusive situations or handling the aftermath of violence. Effective psychotherapy treatments exist which will assist you in handling any emotional or psychological symptoms you'll have as a results of having been abused or assaulted. There also are numerous resources available for those that wish to help somebody else who has been a victim of violence.

No matter what sort of violence you'll have experienced (or are experiencing) or sort of emotional difficulty you'll have incurred from such trauma, it's important that you simply not blame yourself for having been victimized. Thoughts like, "He hits me because i'm stupid and clumsy... I deserve it." or "I shouldn't are walking out late in the dark alone; I deserved what I got", occur commonly as victims attempt to add up out of why they're singled out for punishment. Perpetrators are likely to feed such mistaken thinking by actually suggesting that abuse is deserved. Such thoughts are mistaken and not based in reality. In reality, no one deserves to be beaten, assaulted or otherwise intimidated. Nobody deserves to be physically, sexually, emotionally, or spiritually abused as a toddler or as an adult. Abusive people are unable or unwilling to effectively control or deal with their own impulses and to respect human dignity and rights. Their failure to try to to so reflects their own (emotional, ethical/moral, spiritual, etc.) defects.

Domestic violence and rape are not any longer taboo topics that can't be talked about in polite society. It is okay to speak about having been raped or assaulted, if you would like to try to to that. Further, more is understood today about the way to get over the consequences of such assaults, and the way to assist insure that such assaults are going to be less likely to occur again than ever before. We have developed the knowledge here to act as a guide to assist you better understand violence , rape, and to assist you discover more information about ways to heal and move forward with your life.

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