EFFECTS ON ADULT SURVIVORS

• Higher stress levels;
• Higher levels of anxiety, depression and psychiatric illness;
• Five times more likely to commit suicide;
• Frequently present to medical caregivers with somatic complaints such as headaches;
• Experience twice as many miscarriages;
• Have reduced coping and problem-solving skills;
• FDV survivors are more likely to:

be socially isolated;

use alcohol and drugs; and

abuse dependent children.

(Taken from Beyond These Walls, 1988)

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