People are afraid of psychopaths, serial killers, and antisocial people but they don’t usually try to understand why they are the way they are. Society should actually fear those who caused them to be the way they are now. The majority of the people who suffer from these mental illnesses were caused by people who abused them when they were children. It is important to know how a person changes and what causes them to change. Child abuse tends to change people’s personalities in several ways. As the experiences and everything that has an impact in a child effects their social and personality development, too. Children who are sexually, emotionally, or physically abused have higher possibilities to have a least a psychiatric disorder. Child
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As one may be aware of the nature versus nurture, they both make a part in the human development. Nature and nurture are both needed to describe one’s personality. The environment in which the child lives in can have a huge impact in their development as well as their own temperament and genetics. But all together is what makes the personality. “Every child deserves a healthy, nurturing childhood and the opportunity to grow to become a caring, productive adult. Unfortunately, the toxic stress of child abuse and neglect can damage a developing child’s brain in ways that create poor outcomes that last a lifetime” (Prevent Child Abuse). The biological disposition plus the experiences and everything that makes an impact to the children is what makes and sums it up as a whole and it’s what we call the personality. Thus, personality changes over time. As I mentioned before, child abuse can cause brain damage. The frontal lobe, one of the four lobes located in the cerebrum of the brain, is the one that is in charge of the personality and thus gets effected during child …show more content…
Moreover, some of the emotional and behavioral effects of trauma are included but not limited to eating disorders, drug use, risky sexual decision-making, self-harm, troubled sleeping, and discomfort with physical touch. Some signs of neglect could be a lack of needed medical or dental care, immunizations, or glasses. Also, if he or she abuses alcohol or other drugs. Some signs of sexual abuse could be if he or she reports nightmares or bedwetting, demonstrates sophisticated or unusual sexual knowledge or behavior, and if he or she seems to attach very quickly to stranger or new adults in their environment. Some signs of emotional abuse could be if the child shows either inappropriately grown-up behavior like parenting other children, or inappropriately childish behavior like frequently rocking or head banging, if the child is delayed in physical touch or emotional development, has attempted suicide, and if he or she reports a lack of attachment to the parent. “Studies conducted on older adults have shown that the effects of childhood abuse are long lasting. For example, in a study of psychiatric patients aged 50 and over, childhood sexual abuse victims were at a greater risk for medical illness burden, poorer physical functioning, and greater bodily
As one may be aware of the nature versus nurture, they both make a part in the human development. Nature and nurture are both needed to describe one’s personality. The environment in which the child lives in can have a huge impact in their development as well as their own temperament and genetics. But all together is what makes the personality. “Every child deserves a healthy, nurturing childhood and the opportunity to grow to become a caring, productive adult. Unfortunately, the toxic stress of child abuse and neglect can damage a developing child’s brain in ways that create poor outcomes that last a lifetime” (Prevent Child Abuse). The biological disposition plus the experiences and everything that makes an impact to the children is what makes and sums it up as a whole and it’s what we call the personality. Thus, personality changes over time. As I mentioned before, child abuse can cause brain damage. The frontal lobe, one of the four lobes located in the cerebrum of the brain, is the one that is in charge of the personality and thus gets effected during child …show more content…
Moreover, some of the emotional and behavioral effects of trauma are included but not limited to eating disorders, drug use, risky sexual decision-making, self-harm, troubled sleeping, and discomfort with physical touch. Some signs of neglect could be a lack of needed medical or dental care, immunizations, or glasses. Also, if he or she abuses alcohol or other drugs. Some signs of sexual abuse could be if he or she reports nightmares or bedwetting, demonstrates sophisticated or unusual sexual knowledge or behavior, and if he or she seems to attach very quickly to stranger or new adults in their environment. Some signs of emotional abuse could be if the child shows either inappropriately grown-up behavior like parenting other children, or inappropriately childish behavior like frequently rocking or head banging, if the child is delayed in physical touch or emotional development, has attempted suicide, and if he or she reports a lack of attachment to the parent. “Studies conducted on older adults have shown that the effects of childhood abuse are long lasting. For example, in a study of psychiatric patients aged 50 and over, childhood sexual abuse victims were at a greater risk for medical illness burden, poorer physical functioning, and greater bodily