Abuse [All Forms]

What is Abuse (All Forms)?

Abuse refers to behaviours that harm, control, exploit, or violate another person’s safety or autonomy. It can be emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, financial, institutional, or neglectful. Abuse often involves power imbalance and repeated boundary violations. Its impact extends beyond immediate harm, shaping emotional wellbeing, self perception, and nervous system responses. Abuse is never the fault of the person experiencing it.

How Abuse Affects Your Life

Abuse can affect how safe the world feels. Many people experience fear, shame, anger, numbness, or confusion.

Long term effects may include anxiety, depression, difficulty trusting others, and challenges with self worth. Survivors often minimise their experiences, believing others had it worse, which can delay healing.

Attachment Wounds

What are Attachment Wounds?

Attachment wounds develop when early relationships fail to provide consistent safety, responsiveness, or emotional attunement. These experiences shape how people relate to closeness, trust, and dependency later in life. Attachment wounds are not character flaws, they are adaptive responses to unmet needs. Their effects often appear in adult relationships, emotional regulation, and self worth.

How Attachment Wounds Affect Your Life

Attachment wounds can create cycles of closeness and distance. Some people fear abandonment, while others feel overwhelmed by intimacy.

Common experiences include people pleasing, emotional withdrawal, jealousy, or difficulty asking for help. These patterns often feel automatic and confusing.

Bereavement

What is Bereavement?

Bereavement is the experience of losing someone significant through death. Grief is the natural emotional response that follows, affecting emotions, thoughts, body, and identity. Bereavement does not follow a fixed timeline, and there is no correct way to grieve. Each loss is unique, shaped by relationship, circumstances, and personal history.

How Bereavement Affects Your Life

Grief can feel overwhelming, unpredictable, or physically exhausting. People may experience sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, or longing.

Concentration, sleep, and motivation often change. Social withdrawal is common, especially when others expect grief to end quickly.

Grief

What is Grief?

Grief is the natural response to loss, most often following the death of someone significant, but it can also arise after other major losses such as health, identity, or life roles. Grief affects emotions, thoughts, the body, and relationships. It is not a single feeling but a process that changes over time. There is no correct timeline for grief, and each person experiences it in their own way, shaped by the relationship, circumstances of the loss, and personal history.

How Grief Affects Your Life

Grief can affect daily functioning in ways that are often misunderstood. Emotionally, people may experience sadness, anger, guilt, relief, numbness, or longing, sometimes all in the same day. Cognitively, concentration and memory may suffer, making work or study more difficult.

Physically, grief can disrupt sleep, appetite, and energy levels. Socially, many people withdraw, especially when they feel pressure to move on or appear strong. Over time, unprocessed grief can contribute to anxiety, depression, or a sense of being stuck, particularly when the loss was sudden, traumatic, or unsupported.

Medically Unexplained Symptoms

What are Medically Unexplained Symptoms?

Medically unexplained symptoms refer to persistent physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by medical tests or diagnoses. These may include pain, fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, dizziness, or neurological sensations. The symptoms are real and often distressing, even when medical investigations do not reveal a clear cause. Psychological and nervous system factors can strongly influence how symptoms develop and persist, without implying that symptoms are imagined.

How Medically Unexplained Symptoms Affect Your Life

Living with ongoing physical symptoms can be exhausting and frightening. Many people feel dismissed or misunderstood after repeated medical appointments that provide no clear answers.

Symptoms can interfere with work, relationships, and daily functioning. Anxiety about health often increases, and people may constantly monitor their body for signs of worsening. Over time, this cycle can heighten physical discomfort and emotional distress.

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