Effects Of Abuse Jade Bannon M1

Effects Of Abuse
There are many effects which may cause a person’s health and well-being due to different forms of abuse. Each form of abuse will have different effects and each person will be affected differently. Some people may react to the effects of abuse with self-neglect and self-harm, where as others may become aggressive or have mood swings.
Suicidal thoughts
Suicidal thoughts are a sign of self-neglect and self-harm as a person is thinking of ending their life. Suicidal thoughts can occur to anyone but it is more common with vulnerable adults. Vulnerable adults who have suicidal thoughts live with unbearable pain (which could be from abuse) and see no way of relief or a way to escape however a vulnerable adult who has suicidal thoughts may or may not know they are experiencing dangerous warning signs and symptoms.
Some signs (which could be an indication that a person needs help) are:
Lack of appetite or increased appetite (physical signs)
Saying things such as: ‘I wish I was dead’ or ‘I can’t take this life anymore’ (mental signs)
Getting personal affairs in order e.g. finances (behavioural signs)
Feeling hopeless, worthless, unloved or anxious (emotional signs)
A person will often hesitate to talk about their feelings of depression and thoughts of suicide due to certain reasons including:
Misconceptions: some vulnerable adults believe that depression is a normal part of getting older; this is a misconception as not all people do go through depression.
Stigma: many people tend to hide their real feelings and thoughts from their friends and family, this may be because they feel embarrassed about them or they may fear that they will be negatively judged.
Ageism: the society tends to value the thoughts and opinions of younger people more than older people. This is why some older people are too scared to share their suicidal thoughts as they believe that no one will care about their suffering or about their future.
A person may think suicidal thoughts if they are being abused as they see no way of stopping this abuse, therefore see suicide as their only way to escape. A person may also think suicidal thoughts because they are being abused, as the abuser may have convinced them that they are a bad person and therefore do not deserve to live.
To prevent suicidal thoughts going any further a person should get help immediately. A person should tell someone either a carer, a doctor or someone they are close too. So that suicidal thoughts can be dealt with to prevent the thoughts leading to a bigger issue. This is the only way to deal with suicidal thoughts as you will be talking to someone about your true feelings and getting help.
A resident from the winterbourne view, stoke place or Stafford hospital may have suicidal thoughts as they experienced forms of abuse daily during their time in the care home. These experiences could make them feel suicidal as they have come to believe that they shouldn’t live as an abuser has told them that and made them feel worthless or because they see know other way of stopping the abuse so they end their life to stop it from happening again.
Health effects
Patients may begin to show signs of health effects such as heart conditions and breathing problems due to stress caused by not being able to pay bills or make appointments. They may also show signs of health effects if they lack in food and basic necessities.
Physical effects may be weight loss due to lack of food either from not eating or from someone abusing someone and not letting them have food. This effect can be serious as if a person loses lots of weight then they may become anorexic or could possibly die. Other physical effects could be broken bones, bites, cuts, burns, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy.
Intellectual effects could possibly be that a person has given up on learning due to being abused, as they now see themselves as worthless. Therefore they don’t see the point in educating themselves. Intellectual effects may also be things such as effects on the brain and mind sue to being stressed out because of unpaid bills or forgetting things.
Emotional effects maybe stress or depression. If a person is depressed then they won’t believe in themselves so will lose self-esteem and self-respect due to not caring about anything. Being abused may cause a person to become depressed as the abuser will make them feel like they are worthless. This may lead to suicidal thoughts and self-harming.
Social effects may be that a person doesn’t want to go out as an abuser may have left a mark on them which others may notice. Another effect maybe that a person struggles to cope when hanging around others because they are worried what the abuser may do. A person’s friends may also not want to hang around them anymore due to their behaviour and attitude.
An individual from winterbourne view, stoke place or Stafford hospital may have health effects as during their time in these places they weren’t given the correct amount of food and drink they needed which may have caused physical effects such as anorexia or they may have suffered from intellectual effects as they weren’t allowed to read of have educational things. They may have also suffered emotional and social effects as their abusers kept them from other people as they didn’t want them to find out what they were doing along with not wanting anyone else to have them.
In conclusion all forms of abuse are wrong and should all be reported and stopped immediately. All effects of abuse are harmful as they all change a person’s life whether it’s a physical affect such as an eating disorder or an emotional affect such as lack of confidence, these affects all need to be dealt with either by counselling or seeing a doctor. The effects mentioned above may have taken place in the lives of the victims from winterbourne view, Stafford hospital and stoke place as lots of cases of abuse occurred there. This will have made lives difficult during the experiences of abuse along with their lives when the abuse had stopped as they would still remember the things that happened and sometimes feel the feelings they had during that time.