How to Recognize Possible Child Sexual Abuse in Adults

• depression
• unexplained anxiety attacks, bouts of crying, or fear
• difficulty concentrating, memory problems
• substance abuse
• difficulty falling or staying asleep due to distressing dreams or feeling unsafe
• compulsive eating/not eating/dieting/bingeing/purging/etc.
• negative self-evaluation/perfectionism/low self-esteem
• sexual problems, including sexual dysfunction, aversion to sex, compulsive sexuality, promiscuousness
• anger toward, or fear of, the opposite sex
• avoidance of intimacy resulting in impaired and unsatisfying relationships
• personality characterized by efforts at controlling others often coupled with little evident self-control
• difficulty trusting others, or being too trusting
• chaos in personal life, sometimes accompanied or replaced by workaholism
• behavior patterns often including, but not restricted to, rigid religious beliefs
• self-mutilating behaviors
• markedly reduced ability to feel emotions

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• It decreases physical pain
• It helps people with fears (dogs, airplanes, car accidents)
• It decreases anxiety
• It frees people from upsetting memories and/or nightmares (life-threatening incidents, vivid deaths, childhood abuse)
• It helps to work through anger and unresolved issues

With EMDR, healing does not depend on memory retrieval; the emphasis is on clearing the disturbing images, limiting beliefs and unhealthy behaviors that are locked in the mind and the body because of past experiences, so the client can live fully and freely in the present.

EMDR speeds up the process of healing, so that therapy can be completed in a shorter time frame. Many clients who have experienced limited results with years of traditional talk therapy have been helped at a deeper level by EMDR therapy.

EMDR is particularly suited to treat physical, emotional and sexual trauma, domestic battering, eating disorders, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and blocked personal and professional performance.

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