I was speaking with a 31 y/o woman the other day who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia for 10+ years.
Somehow it came up that she had been in an incestuous relationship with her brother for much of her childhood, until he was put in prison for drug related charges. What I found shocking about this was that she did not seem to think that anything was wrong or unusual with the incestuous relationship. According to her, at least two of her real life friends had been in sexual relationships with their siblings.
This is all very shocking and disturbing to me. I was curious if anyone on here believes that sexual abuse helped contribute to their development of mental illness?
It could play role for sure. There are many types of abuse and they could all âhelpâ trigger mental illness. Where was she from? Incest could be a cultural thing in some places. Sounds like it wasnât hereâŚ
Yeah. Meth excites sexual impulses that shouldnât be excited. Kentucky West Virginia Florida âŚeven some places out west have a lot of meth AND incest. Yuck
Maybe youâre on to something! I recall asking another chick from the west coast her biggest fantasy and she said incest with her father. We didnât talk again after that!
In my area, some rape victims do develop psychosis, especially college-aged victims. Sometimes other family members develop mental problems tooâŚHonestly, the mental care and therapy here is really pretty bad, probably contributes to the poor thing cracking up and psychosis starting. If any PTSD is involved due to back history of sex abuse, the terrible quality of the mental care does usually mean the patient will crack up and it will take 2-3 years before the lady is functioning okay againâŚMy area has long history of covering up some really violent sex abuse, mental care just seemed to take advantage of it and use the girls instead of straighten them out. Most ended up SPMI.
My area does have stories of kids hearing voices and being called away by âGODâ only to be molestedâŚran into another on this schizo board who has same story. Cops refused to intervene so neighborhood kids just had to know to ignore voices, stay out in open and girls never went into in the wooded areas alone. (This doesnât go on any longer btw.)