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