Battered Women Syndrome: Why Women Stay With Their Mate?
Abstract
Men and women have existed on this planet for hundreds of years. Surviving together by involving themselves in relationships and living together in harmony. Or so people think. These relationships are gateway to happiness or an opening for torture and torment. Most men and women involved in a relationship are happy and benefit from one another’s company, but when a relationship develops problems it can lead to a multitude of issues dealing with abuse. Women are mainly the victims of the abuse caused by their mate or spouse. Most women will deny the fact that their partner is abusive and ignore any help from friends or family. These women have developed what is called Battered Women Syndrome, a condition that is caused by the abusiveness of the relationship they are enduring. Throughout the relationship the women is beaten and torn down emotionally and physically that they feel the need to stay with their partner and begin to think that the abuse is normal.
Why Women Stay With …show more content…
If someone were to walk on the streets and ask if women thought abusiveness was attractive they were answer no in a heartbeat. So why do women who are abused in relationships stay with their mate? The answer is based on a medical condition called Battered Women Syndrome. The syndrome is caused when a woman is in a relationship where the partner is abusive to the point that the woman has acquired symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The Battered Woman Syndrome is a sub-category of PTSD, in which the victim has developed a dissociation condition that does not allow them to assess the pain and abuse that they are encountering from their spouse. The dissociation causes them to feel the pain and torment from their partner but makes them feel guilty for being “bad” and allows them to accept the abuse therefore making them return to the abusive
Men and women have existed on this planet for hundreds of years. Surviving together by involving themselves in relationships and living together in harmony. Or so people think. These relationships are gateway to happiness or an opening for torture and torment. Most men and women involved in a relationship are happy and benefit from one another’s company, but when a relationship develops problems it can lead to a multitude of issues dealing with abuse. Women are mainly the victims of the abuse caused by their mate or spouse. Most women will deny the fact that their partner is abusive and ignore any help from friends or family. These women have developed what is called Battered Women Syndrome, a condition that is caused by the abusiveness of the relationship they are enduring. Throughout the relationship the women is beaten and torn down emotionally and physically that they feel the need to stay with their partner and begin to think that the abuse is normal.
Why Women Stay With …show more content…
If someone were to walk on the streets and ask if women thought abusiveness was attractive they were answer no in a heartbeat. So why do women who are abused in relationships stay with their mate? The answer is based on a medical condition called Battered Women Syndrome. The syndrome is caused when a woman is in a relationship where the partner is abusive to the point that the woman has acquired symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The Battered Woman Syndrome is a sub-category of PTSD, in which the victim has developed a dissociation condition that does not allow them to assess the pain and abuse that they are encountering from their spouse. The dissociation causes them to feel the pain and torment from their partner but makes them feel guilty for being “bad” and allows them to accept the abuse therefore making them return to the abusive