Reactions To Emotional Abuse, what you should  look for!

Are you seeking an answer to what the symptoms and/or reactions to emotional abuse; (which may have originated as sexual abuse), may look like or feel like due to your concerned feelings or intuition that you or someone you love may be suffering from undetected emotional abuse?

There are multiple reactions to emotional abuse. The symptoms to emotional abuse can be difficult for those on the outside looking in to identify, because the abused is not always clearly demonstrative about their feelings. While physical abuse can be easier to detect, emotional abuse for the most part, does not leave any noticeable cuts, bruises, or broken bones.

There are indeed some symptoms and/or reactions consistent among those suffering from emotional abuse. Such reactions with physical manifestation, may include frequent headaches, and frequent body aches particularly in the lower back. They may compulsively overeat or they may starve themselves.

Other psychological symptoms can be extremely low self-confidence, lethargy, showing too much emotion and/or even reacting hysterically or irrationally to certain situations. They may be demanding of others attention. At times they may be overly temperamental with instant tear-jerking reactions, as well as nervousness, anxiousness and hyper vigilance and at other times they are completely withdrawn and have no apparent feelings at all.  They appear to have no joy or happiness in anything they experience. What is apparent is that the person needs help with loving themselves.

Sometimes the damaged individual may have a pessimistic attitude, they may be extremely shy due to  beliefs of inadequacy and  depression can take over going to great extremes of self-hatred with self-inflicted injury, extreme hostility, bullying, anxiety, shaking in the body, over-dependency, beliefs of being at fault all the time (even when they clearly are not), not trusting in their ability to make any decisions, and consistently putting oneself down.

There can also be a compulsive need, within these people, to control not only themselves, but others and situations as well, and this can be illustrated both covertly and overtly. They incorrectly believe they did not have control during that time when they were damaged from the emotional abuse and therefore they will may attempt to control everything from that point on regardless of whether that particular resolve is healthy or not.

If any and or all of the items to the left are present in your own behavior or in the actions of someone you love, quite frankly this is indicative that something is obviously wrong or out of balance. It could very well be due to having suffered injury from emotional abuse and it is clearly time to get some help.

The list to the left are only some of the reactions to emotional abuse, as there are many more, (you can view the list to the left) that are unique to each individual. There are also more that may  not be listed; as they are not considered common reactions to emotional abuse..  Either way, all reactions have far-reaching effects that can last well after the victim is free from the abuser/s.

Children who are exposed to this type of terrifying treatment, particularly by their parent/s, can grow up repeating the same pattern time after time within their adult relationships. Even though they have a desire for a loving freeing relationship, they often unconsciously choose partners who are emotionally abusive, or they may be the one to become the emotional abuser, unless they get the help and support they need to change these ingrained patterns. It is never too late to change, don't ever believe it is impossible to change these unhealthy lifestyle patterns. There is always hope.