How do you get people to care? In this podcast I talk about some of the pathologies that emerge for victims and survivors of child sex abuse and exploitation. People want victims and survivors to just suck it up. They do not want to acknowledge what it does to a person’s mind, body, and spirit. In a society where many simply take and consent is an afterthought, we are bursting at the seams with people suffering the secondary mental and emotional consequences of sexual trauma. These people go on to have pathological mental health challenges in most cases. Their illnesses often cause great harm to them and those around them. Society seeks to hold survivors and victims of severe sexual abuse accountable for their actions, sometimes against their abusers, without any compassion or empathy towards the origin of their thinking or their resulting decisions. The criminal justice and social welfare systems need to have allowances and compassionate understanding towards a person’s status as a victim and survivor. Instead they often apply arbitrary judgements when the victim commits a crime born out of their circumstances. We need to establish research to treat and cure the neurodevelopments that afflict the brain and give rise to pathologies such as sociopathy and psychopathy, stemming in part from being a survivor. Brain chemistry is altered as the structure of the brain changes due to abusive upbringing, neglect, and insufficiency. Specific conditioning results in specific neurological outcomes in victims and results in specific behavioral challenges and deficits.

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