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3 days ago · Bruises. Burns. Restraint or grip markings. Black eyes. Unusual pattern of injury; repeated trips to the emergency room. More information on: Effects of Physical Abuse, Pictures of Physical Abuse. And while these signs of physical abuse may seem obvious, most victims will try to cover them up so as to hide the abuse due to fear of the abuser or ...
4 days ago · Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder characterized by a refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image. Anorexia can result in unhealthy, often dangerous weight loss. In fact, the desire to lose weight may become more important than anything else.
4 days ago · Very general statistics indicate that for human-induced violent traumas, over 20 percent of people develop acute stress disorder. Acute stress disorder isn’t rare. Acute stress disorder can be all-consuming, negatively impacting someone’s entire life. Acute stress disorder isn’t a weakness; it’s a reaction to external trauma.
5 days ago · Children have the fear of separating from parents, while for adults, this could be his/her parents, partner or a close friend. Characteristic signs and symptoms of separation anxiety in adults are: Fear. Anxiety of getting separated from an important person or from home. Refusal to go to school or to go to work in cases of adult people due to ...
5 days ago · Psychopathy is a personality disorder of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral dimensions that begins in childhood and manifests as aggressive actions in early or late adolescence. Childhood trauma affects vulnerability to different forms of psychopathology and traits associated with it.
1 day ago · Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly.. The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
4 days ago · There are many different causes of negative thoughts, including stress, worry and upsetting life events. Although many of us feel negative now and again, constant negative thinking can distort your perception of the world until everything seems hopeless. Often, this cycle of negative thinking is linked to depression, though it can also be a ...
