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What Does Long-Term Family Violence Do to You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 15 Comments

    What happens when you live with violence for years of time? When violence happens every day, or every other day, or every week? How do you cope with that much fear and chaos? How do save yourself from falling into a deep, dark depression? What happens to your sense of trust? What do you do with your own huge feelings? What if you are trapped in that situation and don’t know how to remove … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Featured post #1, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Domestic Violence, Effects of chronic violence, Emotional Abuse, Family Violence, Leaving violence and abuse, Living in chronic violence, Living with a Violent Narcissist, Making a safety plan, Physical Abuse, Safety First, Separating from abusers, You don't have to be hurt anymore, You need safety

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