Tabita Enciu: A Domestic Abuse Survivor

Tabita Enciu, a Domestic abuse survivor, explains her traumatizing event during the interview with Charlene Sharpe, a staff writer for Delmarvanow.com “She was breastfeeding her daughter when he grabbed her by the neck and threw her out of the chair she'd been sitting in. She hit the floor hard” (Sharpe, 2014). Enciu goes on to explain how even after so many years she is still reminded of that horrible incident. Enciu recalls as the event happened, her daughter was a newborn. “She didn't brace herself against the fall. Instead, she cradled her 3-week old daughter, doing what she could to shield the newborn from her boyfriend and his temper” (Sharpe, 2014). Terror and fear are what Enciu was exposed to, yet, years later the emotional event

Victims can feel like they are alone, no self-worth. They feel like the abuser is the only one who will take care of them. Sometimes women will stay in the abusive relationships for years before they gain strength to leave. Women can go on to a new relationship, but the impact of the domestic abuse may linger, bringing trust and intimacy issues into the new relationship. Gwynett Machell Town from Walden University did suggest that there are psychological consequences after the abuse has occurred, which can be emotional disinterest, anxiety, depression, fear of intimacy, trust concerns, lack of self-respect, which correlates to the symptom of PTSD (Town,

My family and I are continuously healing from my scars on my heart and the damages that were placed upon my spirit. The intervention wasn’t easy to choose from. It took many hours, days and months to regain back my skills to function normally. I needed to learn to live, love and trust as many survivors have had to do. Although I had chosen the medicinal path as part of my therapy course, my family learned how to provide a safe haven for me as well. My therapy was educational for myself and for my husband. We both needed to understand the PTSD in order to move forward with our healing process. Since then, I have been able to reduce my medication with the continuance of therapy and my family being my support system. The healing process is never ending with someone who suffers from PTSD caused by domestic abuse. Like many other survivors of DA and PTSD, I needed to understand what can trigger my episodes and how to handle those moments of vulnerability through therapy. There are many women in the world who are suffering at this very moment from the implications of domestic abuse and PTSD. Gregory C. Scott president & CEO of New Directions for Veterans makes a statement how we need to understand that it is not just veterans who can suffer from acts of violence. He reminds the world that violence can happen to anyone, any race and to any gender. “While there is certainly war happening in foreign lands, we