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Such traumatizing events naturally trigger biochemical messages through the child which causes high doses of stress hormones to pump through the child’s body. The biological system is now working against the child’s body causing the child to experience an array of negative symptoms that impact his or hers sleep, induces headaches, and unexplained pains throughout the body (Moylan et al, 2009). These somatic experiences lead to feeling anxious and tense which causes the child to seek relief with unhealthy methods such as excessive masturbations or self harming (Van der Kolk, 2014). The constant attempt to have self-control then affects the child’s ability to learn and socialize with others. Child becomes indulged with control that they become

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