Codependency causes people to feed off each other’s emotions and to lose their ability to care for themselves. Codependency is a cruel dance where one person needs the other who needs to be needed. Thus, you end up with one adult being the giver and the other the taker.
Sexual abuse in childhood can leave people vulnerable to forming codependent relationships and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
Is there a way to heal from codependency after childhood sexual abuse? That is what this article shall explore.
What is Childhood Sexual Abuse?
Child sexual abuse is sexual activity with a child by an adult, adolescent, or older child. While most people think of penetration as child sexual abuse, glaring, touching, showing pornographic pictures, or speaking sexually to a child is also child sexual abuse.
There are several effects that experiencing childhood sexual abuse, which is an adverse childhood experience (ACE) can have on the physical and mental wellbeing of the victim. Later in life, they may form or have:
- Unplanned pregnancies
- Obesity
- Cancer
- Depression
- Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
- Substance abuse disorder
- An increased risk of suicide
- Problems with intimate relationships
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