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Childhood Psychological Abandonment
The Madness Must Stop
Most people have heard the term abandonment and know it affects children in various ways. However, what most people do not understand is that abandonment adversely affects those adults who have survived it.
This article’s primary focus will be to define abandonment and to investigate how it affects adult survivors.
What is Psychological Abandonment?
Emotional abandonment occurs when one loses a loved one through either physical or emotional separation. Abandonment leaves survivors feeling rejected and alone to face the world.
The result of such treatment is abandonment trauma, an intense emotional response with behaviors occurring at any age and carried on into adulthood. Major abandonment incidents cause much emotional pain and can impact how you perceive yourself and how you relate to others in your life.
The word trauma is described as an emotional and psychological response to one or more events that are distressing, painful, and disturbing. Therefore, abandonment trauma is experiencing or perceiving any sort of desertion that was extremely painful for you. This type of abandonment is often related to times when you felt neglected, threatened, or forgotten.
