How to Take Back Your Life after Abuse?

Abuse is a tragically common experience. People who survive abuse often have a different perception on life than

people who have not been abused. On the surface level, they learn to fear other people at a time when they should

be learning to discover and explore. At a deeper level, their very self-perception is distorted, and the way they

perceive and interact with the entire world is fundamentally changed.

If you have been abused, you likely feel the effects of that abuse in all your relationships: with your spouse, your

friends, your family, and your children. Imagine what it would be like if you could be free from the memories of that

abuse if you could see the world the same as someone who had a normal childhood.

Love and Trust

Abuse teaches children that the abusive behavior is normal. When children are abused by people who say they love

them, they come to connect love with pain, fear, domination, and secrecy. As those children grow up, they

encounter others who say they love them and want to comfort them. The very feeling of being loved is connected to

the emotions of fear and dread.

Children are not able to distinguish between the behavior of one trusted adult and another. If one adult is able to do

hurtful things, it seems that all adults can do hurtful things. The abuse survivor learns to be suspicious and distrustful

of all adult relationships.

When people are abused, they often dont even realize how the abuse affects their interactions with other people.

They think that people are only nice to them when they want something from them, but they think that this is true

of everyone and that people who trust others are simply nave. Abuse survivors often become self-destructive and

isolationist, and many times they truly cannot understand why other people are not equally suspicious of others. The

memories become so deeply engrained that the abuse survivors do not even realize that those memories are

affecting their current beliefs and habits.

If you are an abuse survivor, you might think that these habits and traits cannot be erased. The good news is, it is

possible to take back control and to learn to trust the people who love you.

Family Interactions

Psychologists have compared childhood abuse with the trauma soldiers experience in war. Just like soldiers, too,

abused children develop survival skills such as resilience, courage, and inner strength. However, these skills come at

a terrible price.

Abuse survivors see the family as a single unit, and they see suffering as the price that has to be paid for being part

of the family unit. They often see adults as compassion less tyrants, and they feel powerless against adults, even

once they themselves become adults.

As abuse survivors grow up, they may develop problems with authority, or they may find it difficult to gain the

confidence and self-respect they need as adults to be able to function in the real world.

A Mothers Love

Children depend on their mothers to make everything better, but this idea does not ring true to survivors of abuse.

Even when the mother did not know anything about the abuse, the child often interprets the abuse as a failure on

the part of the mother to protect the child. This may grow into resentment as the child grows up.

Frequently, abuse survivors avoid being dependent on others in their adult lives. When they do have to depend on

others, they often feel helplessness and anger, or they may even become depressed or develop panic attacks. Abuse

survivors are likely to try to get out of any situation that starts to seem stressful or dangerous.

Hyperawareness

Abuse survivors often believe that it is their fault they are being abused. They internalize the concept of punishment

and think that they are suffering because they are bad people. This belief causes enormous harm as abused children

become adults.

Because of their experience being punished, abuse survivors tend to become hyper-aware of other peoples moods.

They connect heightened emotions in other people with the threat of punishment. They become distressed at even

the smallest conflict or confrontation, and they want to remove themselves as soon as possible from such situations.

Psychological Barriers

One of the most common coping mechanisms for survivors of physical abuse is the building up of psychological

barriers. This process is known as dissociation, and it happens when people create a barrier (dissociation) between

their true selves and their bodies. So someone else might be abusing their bodies, but their true selves are

somewhere else.

Dissociation is a serious psychological problem, though it is completely understandable why it develops in abuse

survivors. In adulthood, survivors are likely to have a psychological barrier between themselves and other people.

This causes intimacy problems, can cause panic reactions at being touched, and ultimately can cause major problems

in relationships.

If you are aware of having barriers like this in your relationships, you can take comfort in the knowledge that you can

make choices now to remove those barriers and enjoy a better life starting today!

Healthy Boundaries

Many abuse survivors fear all people and avoid all relationships. Many others, though, find that the abuse makes it

harder for them to set healthy boundaries. They are more likely to let other people treat them badly because they

do not know what is normal and healthy in relationships. They are thus more likely to enter into abusive

relationships as an adult, thus perpetuating the cycle.

Changing Your Outlook

If you are an abuse survivor, you are not doomed to repeat the same patterns that your previous abuse caused! You

can change your outlook by changing the effects that your memories have on you. The first step is to understand

that not everyone sees relationships and other people in the same way. This realization can help you begin to

develop non-destructive feelings toward yourself and others, and can help you start to change your outlook.

Abuse survivors already have persistence and courage to have gotten this far. These positive qualities can work for

you and help you learn to respond to situations and people in new ways. This is a skill you can actually learn, which

will help you no longer be trapped by your memories of abuse.

The Mind Resonance Process

Over a decade ago, a group of scientists discovered that it is actually possible to clear away bad memories and

restore your mind to the way it was before the damage was done. Through this process, you can become free from

feelings of shame and guilt. Any emotional scarring you have from your past will no longer affect how you feel and

act in the present.

You can completely eliminate the self-doubt and self-hatred that is so common among abuse survivors. You can

learn to judge yourself by a different, healthier set of criteria. When you talk to others, you will no longer respond

based on your negative assumptions and your bad memories.

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