#The main 3

The three main disorders in child abuse and neglect and how it makes you feel living with the disorders:

Attachment: You have no self-worth and it's the loneliest feeling in the world. You struggle with any form of relationships and have no trust. You build walls so tall no one can ever get in. You must learn to trust and remove your wall and that’s the hardest thing to do. In order to do this, you must learn to love yourself first.

Conduct Disorder: Which I call the defiant disorder, it’s the anti-social behaviour disorder. Because you are so angry at the world for all you have been through, you just want to rebel. You struggle with authorisms; you always must do the opposite of what your told, your brain can't help it. It causes problems with aggression, as you have so much rage deep down in your soul and the trauma has no outlet. Like PTSD it makes you anger at the world you live in. Conduct disorder never leaves you, even years later you can still see the traces of it in my behaviour.

PTSD: This disorder can break even the strongest of people. It creates the need for escapism, a break from the disorder. It can completely wreck your life; it holds no barriers to social class and does not hold any mercy to the ones it affects. The replaying of memory's, anything can bring a flash back to the surface. A song, smell, the feel of something you touch or even a taste can leave you a complete wreck. At night it affects your sleep pattern, you spend hours awake locked in your own thoughts. Anyone who's had PTSD will know the feeling of; waking up at 3am covered in sweat with your heart doing ten to a dozen or the feeling of suffocating when you're trying to get your breath.

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