Childhood Trauma Research Paper

Every year, millions of children world wide endure some form of abuse. Without receiving help for the trauma, these children grow into adults with a past that inhibits them from thriving in society. While a minority do not show lasting signs of abuse, majority are too scarred by the experience to recover from it. Adults who suffered from physical, sexual, mental or emotional abuse as children suffer from a multitude of disorders, such as OCD, psychosis, and depression in the later stages of life, hindering success in society. Children and adults who received abuse cope with the trauma in different ways, but sometimes this coping displays in the form of severe side effects. One specific side effect of trauma is a disorder called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. OCD, while common in many adults, can vary in its extremity. The disorder presents mildly, or in severely affected adults, features melt downs over a minuscule disarray. In a scholarly study written by Audrey Tyrka, Margaret Wyche, and Linda Carpenter, titled Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Personality Disorder Symptoms, the authors state that out of 105 studied individuals who suffered trauma early in life, 11.25% of the patients suffered from severe OCD and control issues (Tyrka, Wyche and Carpenter).The article

Psychosis is the loss of contact with reality and the failure to cope with stress. In the article titled Childhood trauma and psychosis - what is the evidence?, authors Ingo Schäfer and Helen Fisher provide evidence that, "Researchers found a significant, interaction between daily life stress and childhood trauma [...] suggesting that, a history of childhood trauma is associated with increased sensitivity to stress" (Schäfer and Fisher). The article highlights that children who endured trauma were more likely to fail at stress management, and ultimately choose a life that disassociates them from the outside