Silence Hides Violence

There are many forms of emotional and physical violence The source of the violence usually comes from someone within the immediate family circle, a parent, a spouse, a child, an aunt or uncle,. Other times it is someone from school, a teacher, or a classmate, a trusted friend, the babysitter. It could even be the little league coach, or the ice cream man, or someone from church. Violence can even come from someone unexpected like the person behind the counter at the neighborhood corner store who always seemed so nice and helpful. Then again it could be someone completely random, a kidnapper, a pedophile, a murderer, or a serial killer.

The level of violence the victim experiences can range from emotional violence where the victim is bullied, manipulated and controlled to physical violence that can range from inappropriate touching, hitting, raping, withholding food, shelter, medical needs, mutilation and murder.

Some violence begins as a single act and escalates becoming worse over time. Rarely does an act of violence come out of no where and happen just once. It is almost always an evolving, perpetuating, fantasy or emotional need that is carried out in repetitive form and then relived over and over again creating a need to repeat the violence in more frequent intervals each time to satisfy the obsession.

Studies have shown that it often begins in the childhood years. Triggered by emotional or violent acts that person experienced themselves as a young child. They often start out killing small animals, experimenting with drugs, raping, bullying, self mutilating or killing a family member or even someone they do not know.

No one single influence can explain why or how a person evolves into someone who inflicts emotional or physical violence on another person. Sometimes the only influence that causes a person to become a bully is their own feelings of inadequacy that lead them to bully. What causes the feelings of inadequacy may or may not be caused by a parent or family member, but simply by the child's own inability to be able to love themselves.

The totality of the years and levels of mental and/or physical abuse inflicted onto this person is what shapes and defines that person's mental state and ultimately will trigger this person to carry out their acts of emotional and/or physical abuse onto others. And the totality of the years of carrying out these acts of emotional or physical abuse onto others usually increases the level of violence over time. In others words the sooner the violence starts, the longer and more violent the acts become.

And in direct relationship to the statement above, the sooner the violence can be stopped by breaking the silence and speaking out, the less damage is done to the person's mental state. And the lower the percentages are that this person will perpetuate the cycle of violence.

Breaking the silence will break the chain of violence

By publicizing and educating this generation about this once taboo subject we will begin the process of undoing years of abuse. It will empower the child, the spouse, the parent, the grandparent to speak up and get help before it is to late. Before it to late to stop the victims of today and tomorrow and years to come. And it will stop the ongoing cycle of abuse from one generation to the next. The victim who then becomes the ones who inflict the pain onto someone else. The cycle stops when someone says stop.

Silence Hides Violence. Stop the Violence.