What is Post Abortion Trauma?
Post-abortion stress is the inability to process the stress and emotions accompanying one's abortion decision and experience. This may be an immediate or delayed reaction that can surface anytime in a person's life. When it does resurface, it can be confusing, painful and overwhelming.
Symptoms of post abortion trauma
• Guilt/regret
• Depression
• Experiencing anxiety or tension
• Emotionally numb
• Nightmares
• Fearful of others finding out about my abortion
• Inability to forgive yourself
• Loss of interest in things I love
• Avoiding intimate relationships
• Bouts of crying
• Drug and alcohol abuse
• Anger/rage
• Engaging in unhealthy relationships
• Emotional numbing
• Intense grief/pain
• Multiple abortions
• Suicidal thoughts
If you have these symptoms you should consider joining a Post Abortion Support Group or discussing this with a licensed therapist.
What are Post Abortion Support Groups?
After an abortion women often may feel they have no one to talk to. Days, weeks even years later they stay silent fearful of being judged or condemned.
At Birth Choice Health Clinics we offer Restore, a Post Abortion Support Group. They are confidential and safe groups where you can share your feelings and talk with others who feel the same way.
