Definitions
WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
Domestic violence is the threat, attempt, or act of physical harm made against you or a member of your family by another member of your family or someone you live with, or have lived with in the past as if you were related by blood or marriage.
WHAT CONSTITUTES PHYSICAL ABUSE?
Hitting, shoving, pinching, pulling hair, bruising, kicking, twisting arm, biting, burning, restraining, scratching, stabbing, shooting, raping, slapping. A violent act is one that is carried out with the knowledge that the likely consequences of it will be physical injury or pain to another person.
WHAT IS EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY?
Emotional Dependency is the belief that the ongoing presence and/or nurturing of another person is necessary for personal security or self-worth.
How can I know I am emotionally dependent
Here are just a few of the ways you can tell if you are emotionally dependent.An intense preoccupation with the other woman, the need to be around her to hear her voice several times a day. A sense of loss or incompleteness when you can't be near her.The need to be the exclusive love another women's life and the only sole source of companionship she has. Viewing other women in her life as competition. In a word, JEALOUSY. An inability to make decisions or take action without the other women's approval.
WHAT EXACTLY IS LESBIANISM?
"The term lesbianism covers three categories of women. First are women who strive to fulfill sexual desires and emotional needs through other women. The second group have not acted out sexually, but have sought completion through an emotional relationship with another women. The third category of lesbians are those who were too frighten to act upon their desires, so they resort to fantasy. All three types of women have a primary yearning to find completion of self-a sense of wholeness-within real or imagined relationships with other women." -Out of Egypt, J. Howard
ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM POST ABORTION STRESS?
Do You experience strong feelings such as anger, grief, shame or guilt when memories of the abortion arise?
Do you find yourself struggling to turn off feelings or memories related to your abortion?
Do you experience reoccurring dreams related to the abortion?
Do you hear the cries of a baby when none is near?
Do you become uncomfortable around babies or pregnant women?
Is your abortion a secret that is holding you back from greater intimacy with others?
Is there an increased distance between you and your parents, siblings, or spouse because of the past abortion?
Has the abortion changed the way you look at yourself?
Have you lost interest in taking care of yourself?
Do you become depressed more easily?
Do you cry uncontrollably?
Have you experienced any suicidal thoughts?
Are you afraid God is angry with you and does not love you because of what you have done?
If you can answer yes to most of the above question it is a good possibility you are suffering post abortion stress.
WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE?
The term ritual abuse is generally used to mean prolonged, extreme, sadistic abuse, especially of children, within a group setting. The group's ideology is used to justify the abuse, and abuse is used to teach the group's ideology. The activities are kept secret from society at large, as they violate norms and laws.
What kind of abuses occur?
Physical, psychological, sexual and spiritual abuse can all occur. Physical abuse can occur as beatings, electroshock, torture, confinement, forced ingestion of drugs, blood, and feces, urine or body parts. Psychological abuse is designed to gain control over the victim. This involves physical threats, forced engagement into repulsive and illegal activity, brainwashing against family, use of drugs, food-,water-, and sleep depravation, and programming for specific destructive activity. Ritualistic sexual abuse is degrading, sadistic and painful in nature. Included are multiple sexual attacks from members of the group, insertion of painful instruments in the body, forced sex with animals, babies or the dead. Spiritual abuse is when victims are forced into participating in rituals, activities and instruction that induce the belief they are separated from God and in total control of Satan. If They fail to obey they will be punish by demons spirits.
What are the symptoms of ritual abuse
Symptoms that are suggestive of ritual abuse are special fears which includes such themes as death, devils, demons, monsters, ghosts, confinement, being kidnapped or harmed. The feeling of another presents in them, dreams or nightmares, hysteria, panic attacks, personality disorder, psychosomatic illness. A preoccupation or phobia with symbols such as crosses, crucifixes, pentagrams, eyes, "magic" and "occult" symbols, certain numbers, and certain colors. Objects provoking blood, knives, electricity, coffins, dolls, babies, and certain animals.
WHAT IS SEX ADDICTION?
Sex addiction is a way some people medicate their feelings and/or cope with their stresses to the degree that their sexual behavior becomes their major coping mechanism for stresses in their life. The individual often can not stop this sexual behavior for any great length of time by themselves. The sex addict spends a lot of time in the pursuit of their sexual behavior or fantasy.
Why do people become sexually addicted?
This is different for every sex addict but generally speaking there are biological, psychological, and spiritual reasons. Biologically, the addict has conditioned their body to receive endorphins and enkephlines (brain chemicals) primarily through reinforcing a fantasy state with the sexual release that provides these chemicals to their brain.Psychologically, its become like a drug that is used to medicate or escape physical, emotional or sexual abuse. Spiritually, a person is trying to fill a void in themselves with their sexual addiction only God can fill.
WHAT IS SEXUAL ABUSE?
"Sexual abuse can be defined broadly as any sexual activity, verbal, visual or physical, engaged in without consent, which may be emotionally or physically harmful and which exploits a person in order to meet another person's sexual or emotional needs. The persondoes not consent if he or she cannot reasonably choose to consent or refuse because of age, circumstances, level of understanding, and dependency or relationship to the offender." -Beyond the Darkness, Kubetin & Mallory
What can be considered verbal sexual abuse?
Any verbal expression with the intent to arouse or stimulate including sexual threats, innuendoes, solicitation, harassment, inappropriate sexual talking, and sexual name calling.
What does visual sexual abuse include?Visual sexual abuse includes voyeurism, exhibitionist, viewing of pornographic material, of genitals, or any sexual activity such as masturbation or intercourse.
What is considered physical sexual abuse?
Any inappropriate form of touching, from hugging to rape. Rubbing, holding, and kissing for the purpose of sexual gratification. Oral, genital, anal, and breast stimulation, and penetration by penis, fingers, or any other body parts or objects, of mouth, anus, or vagina.
What are the possible signs and symptoms of sexual abuse?
Some of the possible signs of sexual abuse are: Depression, suicidal thoughts, insomnia, secrecy, memory blocks, eating disorders, headaches, stomachaches, guilt, shame, uncontrolled anger, low-self esteem, seductive behavior, promiscuous behavior, sexual addiction, panic attacks, withdrawal, perfectionism, compulsive behavior, sexual dysfunction, sexual identity confusion and distrust of men and or authority.
What is incest?
Legally, incest is sexual contact with a child by a member of the family, where if adults, the law would forbid their marriage. Psychologically, incest is the use of a child by any person serving in a care taking capacity or in a position of authority over the child to meet their own sexual needs. This includes parents, step-parents, grandparents, older siblings and any person who perceives themselvesto be closely related. The sexual contact may include fondling, oral-genital sex, mutual masturbation or actual intercourse.
What are the typical symptoms of an incest survivor?
The emotional pain may be turned into various kinds of problems: eating disorders, drug or alcohol abuse, physical ailments, split personality, a compulsive need to achieve and prove worthy. Severe depression, fear, anger and guilt Feelings of shame and secrecy. Health wise you can have migraines, ulcers, shingles, or constipation. Caught within extremes of promiscuity or no sexual interest at all. Feelings of being uniquely different, inability to form trusting relationships and extremely low self-esteem.
Sexual assault is any unwanted sexual contact or attention. It is an assault which can be caused by any force either physical or non physical. The force can take the form of threats, bribes, manipulation, or violence. It can be verbal, visual, audio, vaginal, anal, oral, or any other form which forces an individual to participate in unwanted sexual contact or attention. Sexual assault includes rape and attempted rape in the forms of date and acquaintance rape, marital rape, and stranger rape. It also includes child molestation, voyeurism, exhibitionism, incest, and sexual harassment. Sexual assault can be committed byadults, children, males, females, strangers friends, dates, acquaintances or relatives. Anyone can be sexually assaulted, regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, economic, ethnic or religious heritage.