Care First: Emotional crisis is a universal experience

What Happens to Children of Alcoholics You can imagine what happens when you think about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a parent’s drinking behaviors and you don’t understand the reason for those behaviors (i.e., the alcohol changing how the brain works). In her article, ” Adult Children of Alcoholics, ACoAs: Qualities and Traits ,” Dr. Tian Dayton, Clinical Psychologist and Author, shares the toll alcoholism takes on children as they try to stay out of harm’s way, avoid “triggering” their parent’s verbal or physical wrath, feel embarrassed to bring friends over, become anxious about their parent’s unpredictable behavior, or always feeling the need to take care of their parent instead of their parent taking care of them. The toll can include: Problem with self-regulation Hyper vigilance/anxiety Emotional constriction Loss of trust and faith Unresolved grief Traumatic bonding Learned helplessness Somatic disturbances Tendency to isolate High risk behav...

Healing Sexual Abuse Revealed http://www.prlog.org/11591174-mental-health-news-healing-sexual-abuse-revealed.html The College of Mental Health Counseling at www.collegemhc.com reveals a summary process for healing childhood sexual abuse that is sometimes the issue underlying depression, anxiety, PTSD, marital problems, addiction, and other mental distress.

Nine-year-old Ansh Sehgal refused to go to the boys’ toilet in school alone. His teacher could not understand why. The child kept hovering outside the toilet but would not enter — unless someone agreed to accompany him. When the school counsellor tried to get Ansh to talk about his fears, he clammed up. It was only after he was sent to a psychologist that he revealed that some senior boys had sexually abused him in the toilet. Like most other abused boys, Ansh suffered in silence. The ‘Study on Child Abuse: India 2007’ conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development acknowledges that child sex abuse takes place in schools — and how. One out of every two children in schools have faced sexual abuse. And overall, more boys than girls face various forms of sexual abuse — ranging from inappropriate touch, exposure to pornography or violent sexual assaul ......The abuse might begin with curiosity leading to mild experimentation, then turn into harassment and finally take the form of...