Abuse Survivors Face Suicide Risk
On June - 17 - 2013
New figures revealing the impact of child abuse show as many as one in ten survivors have contemplated or attempted suicide, amid demands for better support from health practitioners including GPs. Analysis of more than 3500 calls over the past four years to a helpline operated by peak body Adults Surviving Child Abuse shows 67 per cent of people who said they had experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse as a child suffered mental health problems as a result. Nearly 80 per cent of callers said their personal relationships had been affected and 18 per cent said their physical health had suffered. READ MORE HERE
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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