PsyBlogger » Violence http://psyblogger.com Helps to understand reasons and consequences of human behavior. Learn how to influent and enforce self actualization. Mon, 21 May 2012 17:52:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Gender-Based Violence Linked With Lifetime Risk of Mental Illness http://psyblogger.com/relationships/gender-based-violence-linked-with-lifetime-risk-of-mental-illness/ http://psyblogger.com/relationships/gender-based-violence-linked-with-lifetime-risk-of-mental-illness/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:44:49 +0000 cleo http://psyblogger.com/relationships/gender-based-violence-linked-with-lifetime-risk-of-mental-illness/ mortazavi20110803061211357 According to a new study in gender relationships, it has been found that gender based violence is associated with a lifetime risk of mental illness and disability. Women who face gender based violence in the form of rape, sexual assault and so on tend to have a higher lifetime prevalence on their mental health disorders.

An Australian research reveals that 4,451 women ageing between 16 to 85 years of age were given international instruments to check the mental status and around 15% of them reported to face sexual assault. This study was found more comprehensive in a nationally representative sample of women.

Four types of common gender based violence were causing a wide range of problems in women, such as physical disability, impaired quality of life, mental disorders for lifetime and mental disability. This research highlighted the need to ensure an expert mental health care for women who underwent gender based violence of any sort.

This latest Australian research was supported by a grand from the National Health and Medical Research Council. 

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Remember that your silent acceptance to your partner’s verbal, mental and physical abuse is not your love for him or her. You need to fight back to stop it. Silent acceptance will in fact motivate your partner to harass you all the more.

You may go to a counselor and ask for advice from people who specialize in dealing with domestic violence. It may be that your partner is in good mood for sometime, take him or her along when the mood is okay and let the counselor advice him or her to mend his or her ways of treating you.

When your partner tries to abuse you in any form, try to leave the place and come back when he or she is normal. This might help in suppressing his or her anger. Try out to find out reasons for his such anger on you and then try to eliminate those reasons for a non-violent married life

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