bipolar or borderline personality
Women have made a huge impact on the use of language around issues of gender inequality. The term "he / she" is now standard usage, where a generation ago, "he" could refer to men only, or perhaps have referred to men and women. This widespread use led to decreased of the female presence in written and spoken English.
But we have not changed the language around sex crimes against children. Why do we say that a girl repeatedly raped on a twice weekly basis for nine years has been "abused?" abuse''means abuse 'and which implies that there is an adequate sexual use for kids! This is not what the law says, so why trivialize the crime society?
Approximately 10% of males and 25% of girls are victims of sexual offenses before age 18. This is the 17.5% of the population under 18 years. If a soul that repeated and that destroy, remove power, crimes isolation permanent damage to the person's sense of self, relationships, and earning capacity were carried against, 17.5%, for example, the age cohort 30 to 50 years, there would be a huge uproar.
To make matters worse, we not only reduce and trivialize these crimes, not properly treat the victims. Psychiatry in collusion in not recognizing the particular harm suffered by victims. Some patients may be awarded the diagnosis of 'best fit' of borderline personality disorder, but most are not addressed and have to drive his chaotic life with their own and limited, and damaged resources. Some also develop other disorders such as bipolar disorder, but treatment for bipolar disorder based on biological medicine alone. The central cause of a life is not ruined.
A new diagnostic category is needed, which I call the Child Sex Crime Survivor Syndrome. Has limit some features, such as unstable mood, but other characteristics that do not fall under the rubric limit. For example, patients can have rescue fantasies, where they are dreaming of rescue someone they love. Daydreaming is the need of themselves as a child to be rescued. Another example of this is a very real ambivalence toward her family, where the crimes were committed by family members. Furthermore, we can struggle with acknowledgment of memories not conforming to 'normal' memories that have a narrative sense of time, and the mental image. Memories of the crimes that come in a wide range of types, For example, a rejection has no other explanation for certain objects, places, music and smells.
Perhaps this mismatch explains the reluctance of many physicians to make a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. In any case, limit the patient's diagnosis accused of having broken a personality in itself. No says the patient as an innocent victim, but blames the patient.
Until you change the language, and until the damage caused by these crimes is recognized by psychiatry, people who have survived sexual crimes will stay in the pain, isolation, and chaos.
About the Author:
Madeleine Kelly is an author of books on bipolar disorder, and is a survivor of childhood sex crimes. Her autobiography is now available at www.twotreesmedia.com/Hokey_Pokey.html
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