Andjelka Stones and David Perry
University of Westminster
United Kingdom

Results from respondents who reported all three types of abuse.

Of the total number of respondents, almost 50% suffered at least one type of abuse (verbal, physical or sexual). Nearly 10% reported all three types of abuse. The initial results presented below come from this group. 96% were females.

• 84% of this group reported manipulative parents. 40% of these were physically abused and 30% were sexually abused compared to 15% and 17% of those who had non-manipulative parents.
  
  
• 48% in this group were the eldest child in the family and 28% were a single child.
  
  
• The majority of people in this group (28%) reported dizziness as a cue symptom followed by the feeling of ‘going crazy’ (12%).
  
  
• More people had co-existing GAD (66%) compared to co-existing depression (40%).
  

Verbal abuse was the most prominent in this group, followed by physical and lastly sexual abuse.

Medication treatment

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