My Personal Experience in being Abused Emotionally
I was in my last year of secondary school when the teacher embarrassed me in front of my classmates. It was passed for about ten years, but I can still picture it as clear as yesterday, the memories somehow last until now. She was an English teacher, and what she did back then had nothing to do at all with English teaching. At the end of the lesson, she confronted me that I am cocky, arrogant, and has no respect for the elder. She mocked me that I am worthless and should learn how to be polite and courteous. I was shocked, I found myself helpless and busy to think what I did wrong to her.
People might believe that it must be my fault, it was impossible for her to be that mad if I did nothing.
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Those are what I encountered in the past, this abuse should not be experienced by other students anymore. I, fortunately, can withstand for what happened to me, but for some people, that might affect them for the rest of their life.
Chen and Wei (2010) state that the student who experienced emotional violence will have depression especially for pupils with a low level of peer support. The problem I had back then, was the fact that it is hard to tell someone outside the school (family) about this matter, so I was a lack of support and hard to share the story. My story might be only a little case compare to many cases out there, the actions considered as emotional violence including shout or give the lower grade than deserves truly happen, some of them might occur daily (Adriana et al., 2008: Formuth et al.,
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I found it difficult for me to resolve my emotional conflict, it took a long time for me to find confidence, and it became hard for me to enter the student council in the senior high school since I was afraid of making the same mistake. Any students who had ever abused psychologically must struggle when they continue their education, they will always be burdened by fears until they can resolve it by themselves. This condition is not health for students, the psychological bully will have a long lasting memory, and give an inconvenience feeling in school. Learning and schooling will be hard when the subjective feeling is not
Parents and other trusted caregivers have been abusing and neglecting children, likely since the early days of man. However, over the past half-century, the United States government has encouraged state governments to focus more efforts on child welfare. The Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act defined the term ?child abuse and neglect? as meaning, at a minimum:
Each year more cases of Emotional abuse go unreported because the majority of people experiencing emotional abuse are not aware that it is happening. I was one of these people years ago; it took some caring friends to get me to see what was going on. In the following paragraphs I will touch on ways one can tell they are being emotionally abused, and ways to get help. While Undefined, Emotional abuse affects more people each day because they do not know that they are being abused.
The effects of bullying on students who are bullied(victims) include psychological/physical issues, low academic performance, social difficulties, and attempts to suicide(hghghy). Students who are bullied on a daily basis can experience emotional distress such as anxiety, low confidences, and depression; As a result, they may have sleep disorders(hdgefiffuhfugf). Many experts are worried because these issues may persist into adulthood. (hfefhhfunrfb).Since students who are bullied suffered from such emotional distress, they may face troubles in their social life such as engaging in relationships with others and form friends. As bullying victims suffer from these emotional distress, they may feel that their school is unsafe for them and consequently they may skip classes, show poor participation on class, and being unfocused while studying. Therefore, they would have poor academic performance. The National Association of School Psychologists estimates that 160,000 students in the
When hear about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder we think of combat veterans and violent and near-death experiences. However, bullying can cause PTSD as well because it can cause fear, worry, sadness, anger, loneliness, low self-worth, inability to trust others. Bullying can take a psychological hard on both the bully and the victim and it is not clear how long these effects would last. Kids that are bullied were the most likely to be diagnosed with panic disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder consider suicide. Bullying can cause permeant issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (Gordon, 2014). Psychological bullying is to when the bully attacks the victim personally. The bully sometimes will make may make jokes about the victim’s
Emotional child abuse involves putting a child in very stressful and psychologically damaging situations. Emotional abuse involves coercive, demeaning, or very distant behavior by a parent or caretaker that interferes with a child's normal mental or social development. Harm to the child may or may not be intended. Emotional abuse may consist of actions that hurt a child's well-being or failure to meet a child's emotional needs. Such actions or neglect on the part of a caretaker can cause serious and lasting emotional, mental, or behavioral problems in a child.
If bullying was truly a problem for the student’s environment, then there should be a strong negative correlation between the amount of bullying reported in section one, and the psychological behavior responses indicated in section two. Therefore, as bullying witnessed or experienced increases, the mental stability of the student decreases. It is then expected that if bullying is causing psychological damage to students, then a strong negative correlation between bullying and academic performance should also appear. As the number of bullying instances increase, the student’s ability to focus and perform well in school decreases. By not being able to function properly within the school setting and being unable to perform well academically, it can be inferred that individuals who are struggling the most with bullying will find it harder to study, which would make it more difficult for them to perform well on their final
Physical abuse can cause a child to have anger issues and be upset with themselves, others and even cause anxiety, depression and ADD/ADHD. Furthermore, physical abuse can cause children to want to commit suicide and hurt others because of the hurt that was put upon them. ( OḾeara Sara, 2005) Physical abuse is sometimes hidden because the child may be scared to speak about the abuse or may be in fear of what might happen next if he or she tells an adult about what is happening to them. Some behaviors that children will display so that children won´t show that they are being physically abused is, sometimes wearing long sleeve clothing, becoming aggressive and having attitudes towards
It seems as though the bullying that is happening does not only affect these students, but also their society. Many students that are getting bullied are being having physical or emotional damage done to them, making many other lives harder. Many of these children become very sad and some even go as far as becoming depressed. On many occasions, students start to physically harm themselves, cutting their skin or, sadly, committing suicide.
The findings were consistent and showed that a high level of bullying was consistently linked with lower grades. The students who received the most bullied rates performed noticeably poorer academically than their peers, regardless of whether the data relied on self-assessments, peer nomination, teacher evaluation or GPA. Although the results clearly suggest that bullying impacts educational outcomes, many educational establishments do not focus on social emotional issues of students to improve achievement scores. Ignoring such issues, may hold back educational progress. It is important to teach students how to balance education and emotions for them to progress, this is the reason why many urban schools employ psychologists these days. In
Bullying is one of the largest reasons for depression and suicidal thoughts in children and teenagers. Whether a person is being cyber bullied, verbally bullied or physically bullied it can all cause depression to the one being bullied. Schools are always trying to stop bullies which is very good, but if a person was bullied at some point in their life it is going to stick with them. It is much easier for humans to remember the bad things that someone said about them than the good things. If a student who has a mental illness due to or partly due to a bully, the mental illness might not
Eva, whose son is addicted to heroin gets this crazy idea that killing her own son would allow him to die with some pride rather than one day killing himself over a heroin related death. “She rolled a bit of newspaper into a tight stick about six inches long, lit it and threw it onto the bed where the kerosene-soaked Plum lay in the sung delight (Sula 47).” Now Hannah, Eva’s oldest daughter down the road calls out Eva asking if she has ever loved her or her siblings “Did you ever, you know, play with us (Sula 118)?” You can not give your kids everything but that doesn’t mean you don’t love them. Sometimes you need to let your kids know you love them because they don’t always realize you do through your actions, Like Eva staying in an abusive
There are several types of abuse when it comes to emotional abuse. It happens all around this world. Emotional abuse is commonly defined as a pattern of behavior by parents that interferes with a child’s emotional, physical, psychological, or social behavior. Emotional abuse takes on many forms including rejecting, degrading, terrorizing, isolating, exploiting, and denying attention or love. All types of emotional abuse involve adult caregivers using power to control a child, adolescent, or teen who depends on them (Newton 19). One person once said being emotionally abused made them feel worthless, and it made them feel like they had no reason to be here.
Remember emotional abuse is rarely your fault. In fact, your partner may be attempting to
Verbal and nonverbal language can cause a lot of damage to victims of emotional and psychological abuse. Emotional abuse caused more damaged and hurt the victims more than physical abuse (Seff, Beaulaurier, and Newman, 2008). Emotional abuse is harder to identify since it is hard to discriminate. Victims are less likely to report emotional abuse because they will not have any physical proof to show to police officers (Seff et al., 2008). Victims do not want to be seen as if they are calling the police because their significant other is being mean to them. The police officers might or might not arrive to the scene and if they do they will not have evidence to arrest the abusers. Physical abuse can be proved by bruises or marks but there is no
Although all therapists are aware of the childhood emotional abuse issue, it is possible that only few therapists understand the scope of the issue. Emotional maltreatment is harder to detect than other forms of abuse because it is more subtle. When Child Protective Services (CPS) conduct family assessments, it is the hardest form of abuse to prove because parents are very open about the topic and emotional abuse does not leave any physical evidence behind. However, it certainly influences a child's self-esteem, promotes the feeling of guilt, insecurity, and creates the inability to form stable relationships during adulthood. Although some behavioral disorders are related to emotional abuse, it is not possible to predict it correctly