Specific Purpose: To motivate my audience to help out people they know who might suffer from emotional abuse and spread awareness about it.
Central Idea: Helping out a person with emotional abuse can make there day, save their life, and make the world a better place.
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As a kid growing up, I was constantly teased for being an outcast, a weirdo, to an extent that I started to believe it myself and this occurring to me at a young age immensely affected my personality.
My topic today is a topic rarely ever brought up, emotional abuse / psychological abuse. There are 3 types of abuse (sexual, physical, and psychological), psychological abuse specifically, has the highest association with depression, and anxiety. So clearly, this
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Which is why according to the lead author of this study, joseph spinatsola, a TV personality and a well know pediatric, points out that there are no physical wounds linked with emotional abuse, so child protection case workers have a particularly hard time recognizing it. So why aren’t we addressing this issue with the same intensity of more visible kinds of abuse such as verbal abuse? After all as the American academy of pediatrics stated “it is the most challenging and prevalent form of abuse and neglect.”
So how many times have you been called a name? Or publicly humiliated? Or had someone look at you in a nasty way? If your answer is often, you should consider the children who have to deal with this maltreatment in school on daily basis. Maltreatment in this case was identified as either abuse or neglect
So things like bullying. Threats severe insults, isolation, etc.
I have recently become interested in psychology and by reading several books on the subject, I have learned more about the impact name-calling and humiliation has on people ranging from children to adolescent. The US children’s health association has discovered that children who are victims of this kind of maltreatment suffered from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem stress and suicidal tendencies. Helping out a person with emotional abuse can make there day, save their life, and eventually make
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Possibly dear neighbor, or the woman who walks her dog outside your house. And I'm sure all of you can recall a time you felt so down casted because of rejection. As High School Students, we tend to get caught up in the problem we have at school because she told him that she heard from them that he said to her that she told them that they told what’s his face that you, were stupid .We forget to take the time to offer help others who suffer far more than we have. We are often in too much of a hurry to stop to check on a friend in need. When we are in need of a lending hand, but have no one to turn to for whatever reason, we may become unhappy. It is a known fact that Sadness is contagious. For instance, a manager had a bad day and takes his anger out on a client. That client might go home and yells at his son. The son soon screams at his friend. That is referred to as a chain reaction. But there is a way to break a link in this chain. The smallest effort can stop this chain reaction in its tracks and even reverse it. And every one of you can do
Everyone close your eyes and let's all imagine something together. The setting is Iraq in a forest.You're lying down in a pool of sweat and blood. The darkness surrounds your whole being, and the only weapon you have against it, Is your gun. You hear footsteps running to your hideaway, your bush, until the shadow gets to close and you hear the cock of a gun .you finally pull the trigger on this shadows life. You stare down at your bloodshed uniform and at the corpse in front of you. And it was at that precise moment this man's corpse was engraved in your mind for all of eternity. Sounds like any other horror movie doesn't it?Well guess what this situation is a harsh reality for many of America's finest , our very own veterans. And the most sinister thing of it all is that it's all happening right under our noses, and at this point it's a elephant in the room that no one wishes to address. The conclusion that many americans have drawn is that if we simply avoid a problem it will disappear into thin air. And that's why i'm here today to express to you the silent killer that has struck America quite brutally. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or better known as PTSD. Hello Panel my name is Derek Gonzalez and today i come to serve one purpose and one purpose only, i came to address the
Emotional abuse may include screaming, yelling, biting, name-calling, lack of love/affection, and so on. Children may be emotionally scarred when the y are labeled as stupid, ugly, crazy, or unwanted. Emotional abuse includes acts of omission by the child’s primary caregivers that could cause behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders. In some cases of emotional abuse the child’s caregiver may use excessive and bizarre forms of punishment like torture, or locking a child in a dark closet. These things emphasize the need for the intervention of The Child Protective Services.
, 1 in 5 women, and 1 in 16 men will face sexual assault during their time at a college? And from rainn.org women in school are 3x more likely to face it than women out of school( ). Hopefully that’s as frightening to you as it is to me. It is important that one day these statistics are lowered to 0. Today, I want to give everyone more insight on how sexual assault can be stopped by letting you know about the problems we face being in college when it comes to sexual assault and the laws and reasons that make it difficult for victims to report. After stating the problems, I will present you with solutions and the benefits your actions will have.
The people doing it or seeing it may not even know that it is happening. Emotional abuse can change a thought of a child. A positive to a negative if you will. Then eventually many thoughts a child may have will direct to completely negative. Emotional abuse can be crippling to a child’s everyday life. Humiliation, judging, criticizing and degradation are just some forms of emotional abuse. Verbal abuse is not the same, but can identify with the silent scars as emotional abuse. These kinds of abuses will interfere with a child’s development and may be more likely to have self-esteem issues than most children. The physiological effect will ultimately damage a bond between the child, and the attacker.
My program, "The Wounds of Words," was held on the campus of area high schools. Three women spoke; one was a specialist on dating and domestic violence, and the other two were survivors of emotionally and physically abusive relationships. Approximately two hundred people attended the program; some came out of concern for loved ones, others came out of concern for themselves. Regardless of their reasons for coming, I knew as I listened to the speakers and their courageous stories that if one girl could be saved from the emotional abuse that may await her in the future because of my program, the program was a success.
Right now, right at this very instant, a silent war all across the nation is being waged. A violation of humanity, a crime that is least prosecuted, and a great threat endangering the lives of thousands of women and children daily. Of course, I am talking about harsh reality of domestic violence. We live in a time where domestic violence is kept a taboo subject, a shameful secret that shouldn’t be let out. We know it’s happening, and even hear or see the events. But who’s taking action?
It is said to believe that abuse occurs in the lives of 3.5 million women in the nation every year (Kelly). There are many different forms of abuse, but they can all take an emotional and physical effect on anyone. Most people who are being affected by abuse are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder (Kelly). There are a lot of different treatment options that people who are being abused can take but sometimes they may not feel very comfortable in the treatment that they are receiving
Each year more cases of Emotional abuse go unreported because the majority of people experiencing emotional abuse are not aware that it is happening. I was one of these people years ago; it took some caring friends to get me to see what was going on. In the following paragraphs I will touch on ways one can tell they are being emotionally abused, and ways to get help. While Undefined, Emotional abuse affects more people each day because they do not know that they are being abused.
MedlinelinePlus offers many incredibly helpful tips on the subject of child abuse. One of the major categories that MedlinePlus provides is over the signs an abused child may show. Children who suffer child abuse not only suffer physical trauma but mental and emotional trauma as well. MedlinePlus lists the following signs “poor self-image, sexual acting out, inability to trust or love others, anger and rage, suicidal thoughts” and these are only a few the websites list. MedlinePlus also explains to readers that trauma from the abuse might not show up until the child’s adolescence or adulthood. MedlinePlus also teaches readers about how to prevent child abuse and neglect. Some of the examples it has are ways to teach the community how to spot
Domestic violence is a very important social problem that we must educate ourselves on because it has such a profound and negative effect on the individual(s) being abused. They are affected mentally, emotionally, physically, and I know from experience that the scars can run very deep. Being in an abusive relationship for three years was devastating to my self-image as a teenager, and because of these feelings of inadequacy, my decreasing esteem allowed me to stay in such a dangerous scenario. Healing from the negative effects of that relationship has been a difficult journey for me, and I can only imagine how much more difficult it must be for women abused for years on end. To this day, I struggle greatly with the ability to let go of my own "control"
There are many things in our society today that unfortunately go overlooked. One such thing that is overlooked is the number of children who are being abused. Unfortunately these children are going through life not knowing whether or not their parents will loose their temper and perhaps kill them. There are many types of child abuse, such as physical, sexual, and emotional. Physical abuse is physical injury as a result of punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, or otherwise harming a child. Such injury is considered abuse regardless of whether the caretaker intended to hurt the child. Sexual abuse includes activities by a parent or caretaker such as fondling a child's genitals,
"The best way to make children good is to make them happy." This popular quote said by Oscar Wilde should be something everyone lives by. People always say how children are the hope for the future; how they should be raised right in order for them to prosper in the future. While many adults do see the importance that kids hold in our generation, many do not. If you think about it, who will be going to be doing your job once you retire? Children need to be given the best resources for not only themselves, but for the benefit of the older generations. If children someday will become the future of this world, they should be treated as so. While most kids are treated fairly and given the rights they deserve, others suffer from abuse and neglect from a parent or guardian which can easily affect how they will prosper in the future.
RELATE TOPIC TO AUDIENCE: As I mentioned, domestic violence is something that affects everyone of
I. Attention getter: Do you know a friend or family member who has been sexually abused? Or maybe you have experienced sexual abuse yourself? Are you aware of the psychological and developmental effects it can have on you or someone you may know? Chances are, you don’t—while sexual abuse is common, may people do not speak up, and the problem goes unrecognized.
Throughout the course of history, millions of children have been victims of physical abuse; it has been shown that the effects of this abuse can profoundly influence ones mental and physical health in the span of his or hers life.