Abuse Victim's Body: Effects of Abuse and Its Aftermath

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Victims and survivors experience psychosomatic and "real" bodily symptoms, some of them induced by the secretion of stress hormones such as cortisol: increased blood pressure, racing pulse, headaches, excessive sweating and myriad self-imputed diseases. The victims endures shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment, and an enhanced sense of vulnerability.

In a way, the torture victim's own body is rendered his worse enemy. It is corporeal agony that compels the sufferer to mutate, his identity to fragment, his ideals and principles to crumble. The body becomes an accomplice of the tormentor, an uninterruptible channel of communication, a treasonous, poisoned territory.

It fosters a humiliating dependency of the abused on the perpetrator. Bodily needs denied -- sleep, toilet, food, water -- are wrongly perceived by the victim as the direct causes of his degradation and dehumanization. As he sees it, he is rendered bestial not by the sadistic bullies around him but by his own flesh.

(From the book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" by Sam Vaknin - Click on this link to purchase the print book, or 16 e-books, or 3 DVDs with 16 hours of video lectures on narcissists, psychopaths, and abuse in relationships: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html)

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[ModerateMartian]

I feel my depression, social phobia and symptoms of fibromyalgia are to do with mostly psychological abuse as a young child. Good videos, cheers.

[Pippisongbird]

All bodies are vulnerable and the torturer would be just as helpless if he or she was made the object. The tides turn and the torturer often becomes hunted and he runs and hides and he isn't so 'strong' anymore. Some people are ashamed of the times they were vulnerable so they hunt for vulnerability in others. They say, "Well I had a good childhood, that never happened to me" to someone who shares a painful story in an attempt to shame them. Be careful who you share with.

[piloooogen]

@vansonia +remember that just a few days is too much thats why EVERYONE should know more about them.

[vansonia]

Narcissism is mental problem. Keep away from them, That is all.

[flintp51]

@fancyfrenchy The abused? or the abuser? Actually, I wouldn't think that's too common. Except that it's his way of not dealing with reality.

[houdapurple]

i was so stressed out that i suffered of a repetitive strain injury to the neck .

[tossThislnTrash]

I must say, I've been depressed since I was 15 (19 now) and the thought of my brain having been permanently warped horrifies me. Perhaps I'd have the ability to learn things at a higher rate now had I been happier.

[fancyfrenchy]

I find that they can't see the difference between reality and songs (musical lyrics). Ex: when I met him he was homeboy status with a shaved head like black rappers, then he had corn rows. Then he went to my style that was 80's, but they talked highly of women. Women are lower then men..huhum. Hes now country music. He now believes hes a country singer and belongs in Nashville. He lives in Cali. an can't/never has sung. I hear the country songs and see that he lives the lyrics. Whats up w that?