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Are You Looking For Domestic Violence Help?

By: Rudy Silva

Contrary to what most people believe, domestic violence can be in the form of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and verbal abuse. There are also other types of abuses like financial, which is rarely heard of in households. Regardless of the type of abuse domestic violence help becomes necessary.

Domestic abuse is defined as the sum of abusive behaviors - physical, emotional, sexual and verbal. The assault does not recognize gender, race, and marital status. It can occur to anybody regardless of ethnic, cultural and educational background.

Why domestic abuse occurs is related to both parties involved. Both parties involved have psychological needs that need to be filled. Psychiatrists reveal that perpetrators want to dominate their victims, punish them against minor or even non-existent sins, and gain control over them. All these can be accomplished using threats, force, coercion and psychological abuse.

Domestic violence help is mostly given to individuals who are either abused at home, at work or anywhere else where the victim becomes helpless and extremely traumatized. Physical abuse is the most common type of violence. It is also the most deadly and visible.

It can start from small gesture like shoving during an argument or grabbing your wrist. However, over time, it can become severe and more frequent. Physical abuses can include slapping, boxing, kicking, and shoving. Also, acts such as choking, pinching, pulling hair, punching, and throwing things.

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At worst, perpetrators burn their victims or strangle them, pin them against the wall, bed or floor. When abuse exists within marriage, the abuse can be debilitating, and when left without help, can result to death.

Sexual abuse can also be considered for domestic violence help. At times, sexual abuse is linked to physical. They may occur together-the sexual abuse comes after an episode of physical abuse. Sexual abuse includes sexual exploitation like forcing a victim to look at pornographic material or forcing a victim to participate in such acts.

Other forms of sexual abuse are sexual assault and sexual harassment. Sexual assault refers to an act of forcing a victim to participate in unsafe, degrading or unwanted sexual activity, while sexual harassment is about ridiculing a victim to limit their reproductive and sexuality choices or to make your victim feel inferior about his or her sexual capacity.

Domestic violence help is also given to victims who have received emotional abuse from their perpetrators. The impact of emotional abuse covers mental and psychological, and it can be verbal or non-verbal. Non-verbal consists of subtle actions or behaviors.

Domestic violence help from Verbal or non-verbal abuse is more damaging than physical abuse, according to studies. This may include threats or intimidation to gain compliance, destruction of the victim’s personal possessions.

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Name-calling, saying hurtful things and blaming the victim of how the abuser feels or acts can make the victims feels there is no other way out of the relationship. These are among the complaints of victims who received domestic violence.

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Domestic Violence: The Fact Behind The Myths and Victims and police concerned about domestic violence response times

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Domestic Violence: The Fact Behind The Myths 

Domestic Violence is one of today's most common assault type crimes. It seems as if almost everyone either knows someone who was, or is a victim of domestic violence. Or, they either are, or were a victim themselves. There are a lot of myths associated with domestic violence that unfortunately are grossly misleading. In this article, I am going to address some of those myths and attempt to set the record straight. 

"Domestic Abusers are extremely violent people"

Though some domestic abusers are extremely violent people, they are actually the minority. Most of the domestic abusers we arrested never resisted or fought with us. Why? Because domestic abuse isn't about violence it's about control. The abuser wants to control their victim, and this control is enforced through physical violence, but the underlining fact is control. This is why they will not fight with the police, because they know they will not gain the control. Another example is say the abuser is at work, and his superior (who may even be a woman) asks him to do something that he may not want to do. He doesn't beat the superior up because he doesn't have the control. Yet at home, behind closed doors, he wants and gains the control. This is a difficult concept for many to understand. To help explain this better I have listed a few common control issues found in domestic abusers.

• Monitoring the victim's comings and goings in great detail.
• Isolating the victim from family or friends.
• Discouraging the victim from working, joining organizations, attending school, or leaving the house.
• Constantly accusing the victim of being unfaithful.
• Belittling or humiliating the victim.
• Controlling all finances and forcing the victim to account for what they spend in detail.
• Destroying personal property or sentimental items.
• Threatening to leave with the children or saying they will never see the children again.

As you can see domestic violence is a control issue. Actually the psychological damage done by this type of behavior is much greater then the actual physical abuse.
"Domestic Violence only happens to poor people.
"Domestic Violence has no boundaries; it affects all levels of income. I had a one case where the domestic abuser was an educated male who made a six figure income. His victim (former live in girlfriend) was an educated female who made a nice income herself. They both had good jobs, and lived in an expensive condo. Well he had beaten her so badly that she was hospitalized with a closed head injury. Talking with her later she stated that she could not believe she found herself in this situation. She stated that her abuser was a white collar worker who actually appeared on the outside to be a harmless geek. In fact, her friends couldn't believe he was capable of this. A few days later we were called back to the residence to stand by as peace officers, while the woman packed up her stuff and moved out. During the time that we were there, I noticed how she couldn't stop trembling. She was so afraid that her abuser would come back, and attack her while she was there. This was to spite the fact that two Police Officers were with her the whole time (remember this was many days later). What is sad this was not the first time she was abused, but hopefully with her leaving it will be the last. In case you're curious yes he was arrested.
"Alcohol drug abuse, stress, and mental illness cause domestic violence"
This is not true, but is commonly used as an excuse from abusers who try to pardon their actions, and unfortunately their victims buy into this. Alcohol use, drug use, and stress do not cause domestic violence; they may go along with domestic violence, but they do not cause the violence itself.
"Domestic Violence is a personal problem between a husband and wife"
Domestic violence goes way beyond just the two immediate people involved. Look into a child's face that sees this violence everyday. Then go visit that child about 10 to 15 years later and see what they have become. If they are male, they will most likely become domestic abusers themselves. If they are female they will most likely become domestic victims themselves. Why? Learned behavior; this was their environment growing up, and to them, this is just acceptable behavior that people do. It takes a very strong person to come out of that type of environment and not have it become part of their adult lives. A child who lives with domestic violence will never forget it.
"If it were that bad, she would just leave."
Leaving a domestic violence situation is not so easy. Many times children are involved and the victim may not have any financial means of supporting themselves. Not only that, but they may fear that they will be killed if they leave. As strange as it may sound, some have a real psychological bond with their abuser, and just won't leave. I have had many instances were we arrested an abuser and the next morning his victim is begging us to release him and recanting her story. This is one of the reasons why the law has changed in many states. Now it is the state not the victim, who prosecutes the domestic abuser.
"I can change him."
This thought is the worst. For anyone who thinks this, read the following carefully NO YOU CAN'T! I have heard this so many times, all from victims who are beaten time and time again. Domestic violence is way too complex for any one person to handle, or fix. You have to either escape it, or have some sort of professional intervention. I would highly recommend escaping it. I have yet to see anyone who has stated this, ever change their abuser.
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When I was 19, I was assaulted by an ex-boyfriend and determined to learn how to protect myself.  Today, I'm a certified Crime Prevention Specialist with more than 17 years combined training in self defense and martial arts.  Along the way, I deterred five extremely dangerous criminal encounters, fought my way out of a surprise attack and taught safety skills to thousands of women and men. Crime prevention 101.