Induced abortion or abortion - a traumatic event which entails serious psychological consequences. Immediately after the abortion, a woman may feel relief, but eventually, after a few days or months after the procedure, most women are aware that they have lost a child. Unpleasant feelings and memories of persecuted women to have an abortion years later. If these feelings are familiar to you, you are not alone.

Many women who have experienced abortion, face the following psychological consequences:

• a sense of loss and grief;
• depression;
• regret and remorse;
• sleep disorders;
• anger directed at yourself or the child's father;
• feeling guilty;
• hopelessness;
• the desire to find oblivion in drugs or alcohol;
• suicidal thoughts;
• nightmares, bad memories;
• low self-esteem, loss of self-esteem;
• the complexity of decision-making;
• inability to forgive themselves;
• abnormal, heightened interest in children;
• taboo on everything pertaining to abortion;
• fear of infertility;
• difficulties with the convergence of a man or a sexual relationship;
• fixation on the date of the failed delivery;
• problems in relationships with others;
• the desire to replace the lost child's new desire to get pregnant again How to Get Pregnant: Recommendations to help ;
• emotional apathy and indifference;
• anger directed at those who are involved in abortion (doctors, women's rights);
• exclusion of any contact with pregnant women and children.

Psychological rehabilitation and recovery after an abortion

If you have one or more of these symptoms are familiar to you firsthand, you may have a post-abortion syndrome - a set of mental disorders and diseases arising from abortion. Fortunately, many clinics now offer counseling and psychological assistance to women and couples who have experienced an abortion.

Post-abortion syndrome

Abortion Abortion - is always a risk   It involves a lot of negative emotional reactions. Some women experience an acute sense of loss, which reflects the inability of the natural way to mourn the unborn child. Other post-abortion syndrome becomes destructive shade - anger and hatred of women turn against itself, why there are eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia), sexual dysfunction, develops drug and alcohol addiction.

"Post-abortion syndrome" - a diagnosis is women who have an abortion after having specific emotional symptoms associated with the transferred trauma. In particular, post-abortion syndrome can be considered as a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a consequence of PTSD is abortion. The behavioral characteristics of many women who experience emotional problems after abortion, fit the clinical picture of PTSD.

Post traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder develops as a consequence of severe psychological or physical injuries with which people can not handle, according to their usual settings, and is characterized by intense fear, a sense of helplessness, hopelessness, and loss of control over himself and the situation. Those most at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder are exposed to those who witnessed or participated in violence (especially murder), those who received physical injury or was a victim of sexual abuse (for example, victims of war, survivors of the road and crash or rape victims).

In PTSD, the sufferer wants to forget about the traumatic event, leave it in the past, but at the same time can not express the feelings of fear and pain. As a consequence, the victim (in this case a woman) feels trapped. It is as though in a vicious circle, trying to get rid of the memories of the traumatic event and reliving it again and again. Her attempts to curb their feelings often go out of control, because of what the woman's behavior seems strange and abnormal.

Many women who have had abortions, describing his condition as "a dream". They think that everything that happens to them is unreal, as if they are watching their lives from the outside. After a while, there is a different feel - as if they face an insurmountable wall. For post-abortion psychological rehabilitation and liquidation of post-abortion syndrome should seek professional help. The course of treatment will return to a normal life and to renew relationships with loved ones.

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