Restore Your Heart - Trauma and Recovery for Victims of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence is an infringement based on gender discrimination. It is not only a criminal problem endangering safety, but also a public health problem. Sexual violence occurs in any form, at any time, in any place, in any relationship, in times of peace or war.
Sexual violence includes domestic sexual violence, non-domestic sexual violence, and armed conflict violence. Armed conflict sexual violence usually occurs during wars, such as comfort women/military sex slaves during World War II, and the Russian-Ukrainian war in March 2022. Sexual violence against women in Ukraine. No matter what kind of sexual violence, it will cause varying degrees of traumatic impact on the victim's physiology and psychology. The social structure is full of stigmatization and unfriendly environment for blaming victims of sexual violence, which affects the victim's self-relationship and self-esteem. Family relationships, intimate relationships, and interpersonal relationships also cause difficulties for victims of trauma recovery.
Victims of sexual violence have different recovery processes depending on the severity of the trauma, but they can all recover by understanding and facing the traumatic impact of sexual violence, supporting physical and mental healing and life reconstruction with companionship, and creating a non-discriminatory family and social environment. Provide assistance.
Launch Care: Do You Know the Traumatic Impact of Sexual Violence?
Sexual violence is an aggressive behavior against a person's body and sexual autonomy. Through sexual violence, the perpetrator demonstrates his power to dominate and influence. After a sexual violence incident occurs, the victim is under the impact of the sexual violence incident. In addition to physical injuries, the victim is also mentally overwhelmed and develops acute stress response (ASD), traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and complex traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). , and then have a short-term or long-term impact on yourself and all aspects of your life, such as: physiology, psychology, interpersonal relationships, family, school, work, intimate relationships, etc. Therefore, understanding the impact of trauma can help you support yourself and understand how to accompany others.
Awareness of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence refers to the perpetrator using rape, coercion, intimidation, hypnosis or other methods against another person's will to have sexual intercourse without the other person's consent, or touching or touching any part of the body of another person without their consent, or sexually assaulting another person. Carrying out sexual or gender-related behaviors, causing disgust and disgust to the other party, and inappropriately affecting the normal life of others.
Sexual violence can be divided into physical sexual violence and virtual digital sexual violence: depending on the degree of violence, there are sexual harassment, sexual molestation, sexual assault, and sexual abuse/sex slavery. Sexual violence can be divided into domestic/intimate relationship sexual violence, non-domestic sexual violence, and war/military/armed conflict sexual violence.
Chen Yuan – The person who took me there was Japanese, and the person who introduced me was Taiwanese. He introduced me that there was a Japanese there who wanted to hire someone to sell things. ...and said it was more serious than what was sold, he said so.
Su Yinjiao - she was twenty years old at the time. She said she wanted to open a canteen overseas. I thought it was good that her family was suffering. I asked what they were doing, it was just serving tea to others, so I thought that was fine and everyone went there. …I had appendicitis, and the doctor only let me come back after issuing a certificate.—Excerpted from "Grandma's Secret"
Have you ever thought about what creates a breeding ground for sexually violent crime?
Is it ruthless war? Or a society that is indifferent and uncaring? Or have you never thought about this problem before?
The trauma of victims of sexual violence comes not only from the perpetrator's behavior, but also from the tolerance, indifference, neglect and accusation of sexual violence in society, culture, organizations, communities (including virtual), workplaces, schools, people and relatives and friends. Degree of damage.
After victims of military sexual violence return to the community, they may encounter attitudes and behaviors such as discrimination and rejection by relatives, friends or society. These all stem from the complicity structure in sexually violent crimes caused by gender inequality in social culture.
Trauma and Impact on Victims of Sexual Violence
The trauma of victims of sexual violence is divided into acute traumatic stress reaction, traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex traumatic stress (CPTSD) according to the severity. Sexual assault, sexual abuse and war sexual violence are prone to complex traumatic stress (CPTSD). .
(1) Acute traumatic stress response: Acute symptoms caused by special stressful events, such as serious accidents, loss of loved ones, or other trauma, usually not long ago.
Possible symptoms of acute stress reaction: psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depression, easily irritated, mood swings, poor sleep quality, difficulty concentrating, and wanting to be alone.
(2) Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Trauma affects the entire body, including the body, mind, and brain. In post-traumatic stress disorder, the body continues to defend itself against threats from the past.
(3) Complex traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD): Complex traumatic stress disorder is a disorder that may develop after exposure to one or a series of events that are threatening or extremely terrifying in nature, especially if they occur for a long time or repeatedly. Events from which escape is difficult or impossible (e.g., torture, slavery, massacre, ongoing domestic violence, repeated childhood sexual or physical abuse, etc.) International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11)
Complex Traumatic Stress Syndrome: CPTSD must meet all diagnostic criteria for Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and have severe and persistent 3 of the following: 1. Emotional mediation problems. 2. Belief that you are small, defeated, or worthless and feel shame, guilt, or failure related to the traumatic event. 3. Difficulty maintaining relationships and feeling close to others.
Source: Written by Peter Walker, translated by Chen Sihan (2020), the first book on complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
Grandma Xiaotao: In our era, if you graduated from high school or above, you could teach in primary school. I plan to work hard to become a teacher first, and then study while becoming a teacher, and continue to pass the exam. That's what I thought at the time, but all my dreams were shattered.
Excerpt from "Song of the Reeds"
Physical and psychological damage and impact of sexual violence during war
Grandmas were sexually enslaved by the military, or during the current Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukrainian women were sexually assaulted by Russian soldiers. Do you know the psychological damage and impact of sexual violence?
After being subjected to military sexual violence, grandmas often feel ashamed, humiliated, and have low self-esteem. They have difficulty in sexual intimacy, often have nightmares, insomnia, sleep disorders, insecurity, depression, depression, and suicidal behavior.
Gao Baozhu: I didn’t marry a dead wife until I was forty-four years old... I’m too timid to talk about it.
Huang Atao: The first point is that I lied to my parents, and the second point is that I am so scarred that I cannot get married or have children when I come back...
Huang Ahou: Finally, I have a baby in my belly. After they are defeated and leave, I will give birth to a girl. It caused the breakdown of my family's marriage. I couldn't tolerate such a thing, so she felt that she hoped that justice and truth could be revealed through many ways.
Lei Chunfang: Because she is married and has three children... They themselves have no way to explain why such suffering has happened to them, and they don't know who to tell, including their own children and relatives...—Excerpted from "Grandma's Secret"
Find out where your body boundaries are?
Body boundaries can be divided into three zones: restricted areas, sensitive areas, and public areas.
Red light restricted areas such as: only oneself and very close (with consent) objects can touch. Breasts, genitals, buttocks, thighs, mouth.
Yellow light sensitive area: only close people can touch it. Such as: waist, head, cheeks, ears, nose.
In the green light public area, ordinary people can touch it. When others touch it, they will not feel embarrassed or uncomfortable. Such as: hands, feet, shoulders.
Find out how long is your intimacy distance?
Minimum intimate distance: approximately 18 inches (18*2.54 cm = 45.72 cm) from skin to skin contact. Usually only very close people. Personal distance is about "an arm's length."
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