FLOW CHART GRAPHIC ORGANIZER TO SHOW HOW ABUSERS CAN CAUSE SERIOUS ILLNESSES AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES IN VICTIMS

ABUSERS (Psychopaths/Sociopaths/ Narcissists/ Antisocial personality disorder)

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DOMESTIC ABUSE (physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, neglect, etc) 

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INTENSE EMOTIONS/CHRONIC STRESS/TRAUMA

(the internal conflict of intense strong emotions and ‘fight or flight” creates physiological changes which knock you out of homeostasis and put victim in a faulty hypersensitive state that causes inflammation in the body)

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SYSTEM BREAKDOWN/BECOME SYMPTOMATIC with

depression, anxiety, headaches, stomach/gastrointestinal issues, pain, sore muscles/joints. May get diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS, pain disorder and the like.

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AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES (Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Scleroderma, Thyroid problems, Crohn’s Diseases, Diabetes, CRPS and more)