Emotional abuse: Wiping out mental health of adolescents

Pages: 1138-1141
Falak Nesheen and Shah Alam (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)
Tehseen Nazir (Department of Guidance & Counselling, Ankara University, Turkey)

The most challenging situation nowadays adolescents go through that is deteriorating their daily living, is Emotional abuse, i.e, a pattern of behavior that impairs a child’s development or sense of self-worth. Experiencing abuse or an attack can lead to serious mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental disorder. And violating the mental health of an adolescent may disrupt his normal way of life. Thus the basic aim of this paper is to explore how the emotional abuse is related with the mental health of an adolescent. The paper reports the excruciations that adolescents go through right from their childhood and explain the aftereffects of these nuisances in their adolescent period. The paper tries to highlight the different forms of abuses and their direct effect on the mental health of adolescents. The different forms of mental health disorders that have their connection with emotional abuse and the physiological changes within an adolescent caused due to emotional abuse are also the matter of concern in this paper. The paper concludes with the measures that are helpful in curing the mental health problems caused due to emotional abuse disrupting the day to day life of adolescents. If emotional abuse couldn’t be controlled it may have serious effects on adolescent’s life and the most important the normal mental health of adolescents will be broken up.