Family Violence

Family violence can be a number of things such as mental and physical abuse, sexual assault, intimidation, verbal abuse, child abuse and elder abuse. If it ever occurs in your family you need to get help immediately because it can turn deadly if the accuser tends to be violent a lot. Violence can make people do strange things that they have never done before and it comes from different reasons. They could have mental issues, using drugs or abusing alcohol, just do it because they want to or because they experienced when they were young and that’s what they are used to doing.

Counselors can tell a lot when there are indicators going on with a child and his or her family. The indicators are: bruising, family members being quiet and not answering questions, the child being distant from their family and the parents not allowing the child to talk. It can get so bad that the child could end up getting hurt even more or runaway because they aren’t capable of standing up for themselves because they think that they can’t win the fight. Counselors can sense that something is going wrong and they try to make sure that everything is alright because each session is over with because they want to make sure everyone is safe.

Here are the long-term effects violence has on the family:

Depression

Lack of Trust

Violence in the family

Divorce rate

Substance abuse issues

Depression is when you are down and out, can’t eat or eat too much, overthink a lot, crying, hopeless about life. Depression can make you feel unworthy like no one wants you nor do they want to be around you. Most of the time medicine can help but others tend to do drugs, drink alcohol or commit suicide because they can’t take it anymore. Whenever there is someone that you know that has depression make sure that they get all the help that they need.

People will stop trusting you if they are tired of your lies and deceit. In order for people to trust you, you have to give them something to trust and don’t lie or do things behind their backs. Violence in the family promotes more violence whenever there is something that goes wrong. Divorce tends to take a toll on people especially when they are in the process of divorce because there is a time when enough is enough and you just want to get out of the marriage