From another standpoint, the second article was written by Canadian Mental Health (2013) entitled "Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Mental Health Issue" discusses the long term effect on their mental health. Children's sexual abuse also causes trauma and affect their adult well-being. Based on the article, trauma is an effect in a shocking, intense, and distressing situation. Trauma from this abuse may cause dissociation. The victim's mind will separate itself from painful events to protect itself. They may have a bitter time memorizing what had happened to them. They tend to feel useless and unlucky being in this world. They also think that the world around them is just unreal at all. This common reaction tends to have a mental illness. Experiencing sexual abuse, the children will develop a mental illness such as anxiety, depressions, eating disorder, and personality disorder. Experiencing childhood sexual abuse may change the way children live their lives in the future and how they behave to survive for their adult being. Altogether, this article states that sexual child abuse leads to an overall long-term effect on their lives.
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