Poor Parent-Child Relationships Causing Mental illness Upon Children part 2

 

Poor Parent-Child Relationships Causing Mental Illness Upon Children

No child should ever have to be born with parents that are too stubborn to put their pride to the side

and view their children as one of their own and not to gain something from them, or

just use them as an excuse for why they as a person are terrible.

 

Children who experience chronic emotional abuse can suffer from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem,

PTSD, and suicide. Though there are the rare exception that children who go through such verbal abuse

doesn’t end up this way it doesn’t take away from the problem of the results the abuse causes. The

effects of trauma and the body and brain can leave a lasting imprint despite this not being a physical

form of abuse.

 

“Research has shown that if left untreated, children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform

poorly in school, miss out on important social experiences, and engage in substance abuse.” With this

information, I can conclude that it makes sense a child can feel this way considering anxiety has the

effect of feeling nervous, restless, or tenseness and as a result makes the child feel as something is

always going to happen, preventing them from participating in the things they want to do.

 

Low self-esteem will reduce the quality of life for that kid being abused as he or she will always have

continuous feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety, anger, shame, and guilt.

When PTSD is present it is very noticeable and when exposed to certain scenarios that may trigger those

traumatic events that they once went through, they may relive it throughout the day, or have it in their

nightmares.

 

 

“From infancy through adolescence, the body’s biology develops. Normal biological

function is partly determined by environment. When a child grows up afraid or under constant or

extreme stress, the immune system and body’s stress response systems may not develop normally”.

This is all since children are still growing human beings and haven’t experienced the world

yet and is still and a premature view of things, so when you put in an environment of toxicity and hate,

they will be forced to cope with it through different means.

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, April 27, 2022 (Health Day News)—According to this article, it talks of trauma and how severe verbal abuse can leave an impact on the premature minds on

kids and the long-term negative effects of it. “Among those who were exposed to chronic parental

domestic violence during childhood, 22.5% had major depression at some point in their life, 15% had an

anxiety disorder and nearly 27% had a substance abuse disorder. In comparison, the rates among people

with no history of violence between their parents were 9%, 7%, and 19%, respectively.” From all of this

being said I can say that people need to start taking a stand in these situations and to notice the signs

and the things that people can do to prevent this major problem and it all starts with supporting the

people being exposed to these vile things being done to them.

 

The findings were published April 12 in the Journal of Family Violence.

Despite all of this, there are people who say that they have went through this type of abuse and

no horrible results have happened to them, but this itself doesn’t take away from the problem at hand

and not spread to the matter of what these terrible parents make their kids go through. Evidence of

these results can be found in an article from the daily mail. “Grew up craving physical attention because

my parents just did not hug, and the overwhelming majority of the attention I got was negative, either

emotional or physical abuse, he recalled. ‘My wife craves physical attention because she was basically

ignored as a child.” Although mentally abused from when they were growing up, they didn’t become on

of the statistics of having PTSD, long term trauma or etc. Most people faced with these issues no matter

their situation of how they grew up, they are still going to be faced with the horrible possibility of being

depressed, feel the need of going through therapy or reaching out to someone to  help themselves face

their problems.

This Is NOT Normal

“Many people believe that these behaviors are part of a “normal relationship” This is because it’s

handed down from generation, on both the abuser’s side and the victim’s side.”

 

 

It even comes to a point where the victim being abused has become so adjusted to being treated this

way that it becomes normal to them and just tough love. The reasons as to why the child might seem to

be in this predicament may come in the result of fear of judgement or stigmatization if their reveal of

being abused comes to light, shame, denial, or even an unsupportive environment in general. With this 

being said and to conclude on this note it is important to know the long term effects of the lingering 

problems that come with exposure to verbal and mental abuse and shouldn't be taken light of in any 

matter.