Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

Adults who experienced abuse as a child can often feel isolated and alone, unable to talk to friends or family about how they feel.  In Ireland currently, the publication of reports such as the Ryan Report and the more recent Murphy Report can be very difficult and painful for anyone who has tried hard to forget their own childhood experiences in an institution or at the hands of nuns, priests, brothers or anyone else working in the catholic church. Abuse is not always sexual, it can be physical, or emotional, or some combination of these three elements.  Neglect is also a form of abuse, and many people who were brought up by people away from their family, may continue to suffer emotionally even now simply because they never felt loved as a child.  

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