Citation

Vitriol G V, Gomberoff J M, Basualto ME, Ballesteros S. Rev. Med. Chile 2006; 134(10): 1302-1305.

Vernacular Title

Relacion entre trastorno por estres postraumatico de inicio tardio, abuso sexual

Affiliation

Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Sociedad Medica De Santiago)

DOI

/S0034-98872006001000013

PMID

17186101

Abstract

There is a relationship between child sexual abuse and adult psychopathology. We report a 35 year-old woman derived to the Psychiatric Service of the Curica Hospital due to anxiety and depressive symptoms lasting eight years, to illustrate the above mentioned relationship. At the psychiatric unit, a post traumatic stress disorder of belated onset, triggered by sexual abuse during childhood, re-edited after her daughter's birth, was diagnosed. This case illustrates different factors, which, in retrospective studies, have been associated with the morbid consequences of child sexual abuse, and allows an understanding of how different sexually traumatic events, during a person's lifetime, contribute to the development of a psychopathology. The problem was confronted by the mental health team at different levels and symptoms subsided in few interventions. An active search of the traumatic sexual background, allowed this achievement. The importance of studying and validating clinical situations as the present case, with methodologies based on evidence, is stressed.

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