A Journey to GraceSexual Abuse - Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms - Numbing of emotions - may feel like you are refusing to have emotion
- Emotion is replaced by fake more acceptible ones - like wearing a mask
- Compartmentalized behavior and/or lifestyles - good girl verses very promiscuous girl
- Control - the need to control all relationships - never to be over-powered again and left helpless
- Lack of trust in any relationship
- Sexual promiscuity
- Sexual dysfunction - very sexual or apathetic
- Self-esteem - feelings of worthlessness - feeling inadequate- never good enough - something must be wrong with me to make this happen, to cause God not to help me, care for me or see me
- Self-blame - I should have done something or told someone
- Desire to be invisible while at the same time needing to perform; be good enough in order to feel validated
- Anger - the anger is out of proportion for the circumstance
- Shame
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Substance abuse
- Nightmares
- Fear - sometimes unreasonable, unfounded, morbid
- Self-destructive behavior
- Insomnia
- Deliberate sleep deprivation
- Over or under achiever
- Suicidal
- Suicidal thoughts, not necessarily planning a way to carry out suicide, just wishing to die
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