Battered Baby Syndrome

Battered child syndrome is a syndrome of mental disorders, primarily of an emotional nature, that develops in children who have witnessed abuse by their parents, more often by one of them. A feature of this disorder is the ability to “self-switch off” memory: the child does not remember what happened during the first few years of life. He not only cannot recall in his memory the picture and sequence of events of the first year of life, he does not remember his own early childhood at all: from the moment of birth to two or three years. After three years, the memory of victims of violence is restored (if the psychologist or psychiatrist himself does nothing for this), and children remember the subsequent years of childhood quite well. From this, experts conclude that violence at an early age entails damage not only to the mental, but also to the personal development of the child, and very significant damage. Up to 50% of children who are abused subsequently show signs of emotional trauma - anxiety, depression, violence.

Currently, battered child syndrome is considered one of the most common manifestations of emotional trauma. Many people suffer from childhood abuse and don't know how to cope. The way it starts can be very similar to normal parenting, but gradually progresses from "small" incidents to physical abuse. Eventually it becomes too much