Below you will find a list of discussions in the Child Sexual Abuse forum at the Live Your Optimal Life to Heal Your Ailments Forum. Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation; physically and / or visually. Being abused as a child may have serious and long-lasting effects on a person, through-out their adult life. The effects of child sexual abuse include: Depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, tendency to re-victimization in adulthood, physical injury, serious and long-term psychological trauma, especially in the case of parental incest. Additional symptoms of Child Abuse include: Loss of confidence, dignity and self respect, low self-esteem and poor self-worth, severe sense of shame, poor body image, hopelessness, finding it difficult to trust others, including close family and friends, eating disorders i.e. bulimia, anorexia nervosa and over-eating, nightmares, sleep disturbances, inability to relax and enjoy life, the early loss of innocence and childhood, anxiety, guilt and fear, relationship and sexual dysfunction, withdrawal, and acting out, a sexual obsession or compulsion, subsequent self despising and difficulties in relating to the opposite sex. Child sexual abuse is also strongly connected to the development of addictive behavior and borderline personality disorder.
Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation; physically and / or visually. Being abused as a child may have serious and long-lasting effects on a person, through-out their adult life. The effects of child sexual abuse include: Depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, tendency to re-victimization in adulthood, physical injury, serious and long-term psychological trauma, especially in the case of parental incest. Additional symptoms of Child Abuse include: Loss of confidence, dignity and self respect, low self-esteem and poor self-worth, severe sense of shame, poor body image, hopelessness, finding it difficult to trust others, including close family and friends, eating disorders i.e. bulimia, anorexia nervosa and over-eating, nightmares, sleep disturbances, inability to relax and enjoy life, the early loss of innocence and childhood, anxiety, guilt and fear, relationship and sexual dysfunction, withdrawal, and acting out, a sexual obsession or compulsion, subsequent self despising and difficulties in relating to the opposite sex. Child sexual abuse is also strongly connected to the development of addictive behavior and borderline personality disorder.