| As an adult have you experienced-but not | | | | healing process of wounds, punching, |
| limited to the following? | | | | slapping, picking skin, pulling hair, |
| - Little or no memory of childhood-age 3 | | | | bloodletting, tattooing, piercing |
| to 12 | | | | - Wearing baggy clothes or clothes a |
| - Trouble with relationships-on the job, | | | | size or two sizes too large |
| in your family, | | | | - Aversion to opposite sex-including |
| - Low self-esteem, | | | | homosexuality/lesbian |
| - Panic attacks-mild to severe, | | | | - Use of pornography-print, video |
| - Anxiety, | | | | - Enjoy peep shows, topless dancers, |
| - Phobias, | | | | - Become a porn star or pimp, |
| - Depression, | | | | - Sex offenders-male and female |
| - Inability to trust or trusting | | | | Suggested Reading: |
| indiscriminately, | | | | - Heal Your Body, Louise L. Hay |
| - alcohol/drug abuse, | | | | - The Courage to Heal, Ellen Bass and |
| - Obsessive compulsive behavior, | | | | Laura Davis |
| - Nightmares of being chased, trapped or | | | | - Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest |
| surreal, | | | | and Its Aftereffects in Women, E. Sue |
| - Sensory flashes-unable to identify | | | | Blume |
| images, | | | | - Allies in Healing: When the Person |
| - Insomnia, | | | | You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child |
| - Suicidal thoughts or attempts, | | | | Laura Davis |
| - A sense of going crazy or feeling | | | | - Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's |
| unreal compared to others | | | | Betrayal of the Child, Alice Miller |
| - Shame, guilt, | | | | - Breaking Down the Walls of Silence: |
| - Sense of underlying humiliation, | | | | The Liberating Experience of Facing |
| - Baseless crying, | | | | Painful Truth Alice Miller |
| - Angry outbursts/rage seemingly for no | | | | - The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood |
| reason, | | | | Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness |
| - Inability to recognize feelings, | | | | Alice Miller, et al |
| - Mood swings, | | | | - Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood |
| - Emotional shut down, | | | | Injuries, Alice Miller |
| - Numbing or zoning out, | | | | - Trauma, Amnesia and the Denial of |
| - Arthritis/joint pain, | | | | Abuse, Robert Falconer, et al., eds. |
| - Diagnosis of ADD or ADHD, | | | | - Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from |
| - Labeled an 'airhead' | | | | Incest, Mike Lew |
| - Chronic/acute fear, | | | | - Wounded Boys, Heroic Men: A Men's |
| - Headaches/migraines, | | | | Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse |
| - Eating disorders-anorexia, bulimia, | | | | Daniel Sonkin |
| obesity, | | | | - Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from |
| - PMS, | | | | Child Sexual Abuse, Stephen GrubmanBlack |
| - Vaginismus, | | | | - Female Sexual Abuse of Children, |
| - Gastrointestinal/gynecological | | | | Michele Eliott, ed. |
| disorders, | | | | - The Last Secret: Daughters Sexually |
| - Chronic fatigue, | | | | Abused by Mothers, Bobbie Rosencrans |
| - MS, | | | | If you have experienced one or more of |
| - Fibromyalgia, | | | | these 'symptoms' you could be a physical |
| - Lupus | | | | or sexual abuse survivor. |
| - Chronic back pain-L3, L4 and/or L5 | | | | Healing the emotional wounds of physical |
| region | | | | or sexual abuse is possible. Talk |
| - Cancer-predominately-vaginal, cervical | | | | therapy, antidepressants and/or |
| or ovarian in women; testicular, | | | | antipsychotic drugs are inadequate to |
| prostate in men; however cancer of any | | | | uncover the emotional pain, and heal the |
| kind can be as a result of physical or | | | | trauma trapped in muscles and tissue. To |
| sexual abuse. Cancer is anger/rage | | | | fully appreciate the depth of this pain, |
| turned against the self. | | | | I will quote one of my clients, "Even my |
| - Prostitute/promiscuous sex, | | | | blood hurts." A multifaceted healing |
| - Inability to orgasm | | | | process specifically focused on |
| - Dissociative Identity Disorder-MPD | | | | physical and sexual abuse recovery and |
| - Self-injury-self-abuse, | | | | diligent work is the most effective; |
| self-mutilation (cutting, burning, | | | | wherein the survivor can replenish their |
| breaking bones, pinching skin, | | | | emotional and spiritual identity and |
| ingesting, injecting and inserting | | | | empowerment. |
| foreign materials, interfering with the | | | | |