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Child Abuse and Suicide Are Related – but That Relationship Is Often Hidden
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My husband took his life after years of carrying the weight of being sexually abused — physically and emotionally — by the people who were supposed to care for him as a child and adolescent.
As he got older, the physical sexual abuse stopped, but the emotional and psychological abuse continued, even morphing into new forms of control, like financial exploitation.
He never allowed himself to get help for the trauma he endured as a child, which carried over into his adulthood. At 34 years old, he took his own life because of it. How Adults Hide the Pain of Childhood Trauma and Abuse My husband was the kindest, gentlest, most capable human I know.
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