In Addition To The Effect On Physical, Doctors Call Domestic Violence Can Manage Mental Health

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JAKARTA - Domestic Violence or domestic violence is increasingly occurring. This behavior can be in the form of frightening, intimidating, terrorizing, manipulating, hurting, insulting, blaming, or injuring a partner. According to information from doctor AICARE, Domestic Violence arises due to a combination of factors such as individuals, relationships with partners, as well as the environment and the people they live in.

For factors related to individuals, it could be that domestic violence actors have problems managing anger, having jealousy, having low self-confidence, or having a belief in culture that they have the right to control their partners. In addition, dependence on alcohol consumption and drugs also causes perpetrators to less control the impulses of violence that arise.

For the factor of relationships with partners, domestic violence can occur if there are conflicts in relationships such as jealousy, possessive feelings, tension, divorce, or separation. The dominant behavior in which one partner controls relationships more than the other partner can also cause violent problems. Or, when small children, domestic violence actors have seen violence that occurs between parents, experience poor parenting, or physically disciplined punishment from their parents when they were small, so that it affects their growth and development.

Meanwhile, environmental factors are the high poverty rate as well as limited economic and educational opportunities in the environment of domestic violence actors, a lot of crime and violence in their community areas, poor relations between neighbors so that neighbors or people in their community are not interested in mediating situations where they see violence.

If done continuously, this act of violence does not only cause physical injury. Domestic violence can also affect the mental health of the victim. Those who become victims of violence can experience an increased risk of depression, layoffs, anxiety disorders, the use of prohibited substances and alcohol, and risky sexual behavior. When it is severe, domestic violence also causes victims to have the desire to commit suicide.

The issue of domestic violence is actually difficult to identify because many victims choose to remain silent. However, keep in mind that no one is entitled to be injured and subjected to violent behavior. Know that the violence you are experiencing is not because of the mistakes you made.

If you are a victim of domestic violence, don't hesitate to report it to the authorities or related institutions.

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