Psychological resilience

Overcoming Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse is one of the biggest problems that can come out of a relationship that some may not even hear about. When I first heard the word abuse, I thought it was just how someone physically treated someone. Most women who are stuck in an abusive relationship don 't realize what kind of resources are out there and available to help them get away and get a fresh start. When I was in need, I was not aware of these life-changing resources. When I was about nineteen…

Many women are trapped in abusive relationships. Leslie Morgan Steiner, the author of Crazy Love, calls it “a physical and psychological trap disguised as love.” In her Ted Talk, she points out questions that most people don’t comprehend and always ask: “Why does she stay [in abusive relationships]? Why doesn’t she just leave ?” However, most people do not realize the reality of this problem is much more complicated. According to Domestic Abuse Shelter, it generally takes women seven times…

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD as it is commonly referred to, is an anxiety disorder that develops following the experience or the witnessing of a traumatic life-threatening event. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, “the defining characteristic of a traumatic event is, it’s capacity to provoke fear, helplessness, or horror in response to the threat of injury or death.” (Yehuda, 2002) This event could be living through military combat in wartime, surviving a natural…

Post-traumatic stress disorder can occur after someone has been exposed to a traumatic event. Trauma is defined as, “an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects” (Townsend, 2014). Any event that causes a person to have intense fear of physical harm or death to themselves or a loved one may lead to PTSD. Events such as a motor vehicle accident, combat exposure, physical or sexual abuse, fire, tornado, hurricane, flood,…

scavenging graves of those already dead to manifest their body parts to create himself, essentially a new skin. At first, he appears to be a psychotic gentleman that hacks and engulfs his victim, however, his problems seem to spur from an even deeper psychological problem. The problems he has experienced as a youth and all of these emotional instances that drain him from his proper cognitive development come back to bite him in the future. Edward Gein grew up in a very abusive environment,…

Multiple men and women are not aware of domestic violence occurring around them; However, others are informed and have been through this situation. The act of violence in relationships is caused by several reasons that can have serious consequences. The major issue is that the majority of the victims are women. In addition, the world has viewed women as less valuable than men, meaning that females are the prey in a negative and downhill relationship. Knowing the factors that cause this problem…

Zora Neale Hurston is an author who tries her best to reflect what happen in her life through poems, short stories, and novels. Zora was one of the many Harlem Renaissance writers, even though her work didn’t get much recognition. Because they were not considered the norm of her time period. She was tired of seeing the same thing among different authors, so her literary work were meant to stand out from the rest.Sweat was a story of determination and oppression, with religion and strength as the…

Violence, Threat of Serious Violence and the Battered Woman Syndrome Women usually make a plea of provocation when they kill their abuser, i.e. their partner or husband due to a `slow burn’ reaction to continuous domestic abuse. However, as pointed out by Susan Edwards the requirement of immediate outrage automatically excludes battered women. This is because women, as they can be said to be weaker than men, tend to kill their abuser when he is intoxicated, asleep and unable to defend himself.…

Violence is never a good thing for any one and because of violence a lot of people have gotten hurt very bad or even killed. However, these senseless acts will never stop or change and has been going on for year. Therefore, in 1970 Lenore Walker developed the social cycle theory known as the cycle of violence. She created this cycle in hopes of limiting some of the domestic violence and abuse that women were dealing with. Now this cycle has four stages of violence in it which consists of…

suffers a full-blown mental breakdown at the hands of Stanley Kowalski. Violence mainly occurs within Stanley’s behaviour and Blanche’s past, but he does not restrict violence to just the physical sort, as he manifests brutality in emotional and psychological violence. Williams uses the motif of violence to emphasise conflict within the play through Stanley and Blanche and to highlight issues in society between the genders and different…