Congratulations upon completion of Week Number Five’s Activity and Welcome to Week Number Six - the Final Class of “Inspired to Write, But How”. I am thankful to have shared the last six weeks with you on your journey to publishing your written work. Follow each of these The following links will review each of the first five classes.
Today as we conclude our time together, I present the final draft of the first draft on Sexual Violence last week. The first draft was 614 words. The following final draft has been edited to 500 words.
Sexual Violence
Sexual Violence does not
destroy the physical body of victims but leaves behind devastated self –
esteem, guilt and shame, arrested development, and post - traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). Sexual violence devastates self
- esteem leaving victims feeling their sacred personal worth gone. Victims feel guilt and shame afraid others
will blame them for what has happened.
Emotional development can stop from the moment sexual violence occurred. Stressful triggers can prompt victims to
experience the fear of traumatic events repeatedly for years. Without clinical and spiritual intervention,
victims can live out the trauma of their experience for a lifetime.
Self – Esteem is a
reflection of admiration, appreciation, regard and respect for self. The better one manages for self – esteem, the
better one perceives or feels good about him or her.
Immediately
following experiences of sexual violence, victims perceive their souls taken
leaving them feeling hollow and empty.
Sacred personal worth feels stolen.
Victims feel they will never recover.
Healing feels impossible.
Guilt
and shame follow acts of sexual violence.
Guilt feels responsible. Shame
believes guilt. Painful thoughts haunt. Questions haunt. Why did they hurt me? Why did it happen to me? What did I do to cause it? Victims can feel responsible for what happened
and blame themselves. This results in
victim tendency to withdraw from primary relationships into self – imposed
prisons identifying with and becoming consumed with their pain in dark depression.
Arrested Development is an abnormal state in which development has
stopped prematurely. It is a medical
term indicating the physical or emotional maturing process stopped.
A teenage girl raped at age 13
experiences arrested development from her traumatic experience. Normal
development wrongfully and harmfully ended.
Without significant therapeutic intervention, she may languish at the
maturity level of a 13-year-old girl into early mid – life or later.
Tamasin Wedgewood reports this
conclusion in her work, “What Does Developmental Arrest Mean?” She concludes, “Developmental arrest means
that some aspect of normal growth and development has halted. Such an arrest
can affect any aspect of development--physical, intellectual or
emotional.” Physical and emotional
trauma can cause arrested development.”
Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder is a clinical term
for a group of symptoms experienced by people who have undergone trauma.
PTSD usually occurs within three months of a traumatic experience, but in some
instances can present years after the fact.
Triggers, in the social and
emotional environments of victims prompt reliving traumatic experiences. Others may have repressed the experiences
successfully for years to have them return to flood their emotions with painful
memory incapacitating them.
Without significant and
immediate therapeutic intervention, the effects of sexual trauma can have a
lingering influence on the physical lives and emotions of victims. There is no one size fits all providing
promises of healing or getting over the experience. Getting help, helps.
Seeking help intentionally
will facilitate the process of personal recovery. Recovery is not an achievement of
status. Recovery is the quest to become
one’s best most authentic self fully alive to pursue self – interests without
hindrance.
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Final Class - Class Number Six – June 10
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