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Rape, the aftermath
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The brutality of rape is beyond words. The country has been seeing increasing number of sexual assaults on women last two years. The sensational Delhi rape case of Nirbhaya literally shook the nation
The brutality of rape is beyond words. The country has been seeing increasing number of sexual assaults on women last two years. The sensational Delhi rape case of Nirbhaya literally shook the nation, sending hate waves all over the world. While women now have to protect themselves and be aware, the society at large should also understand what life looks like for the victim after being raped by her assailants. The pain experienced by the woman subjected to rape crosses mere physical wounds. The aftermath leaves the victim shattered, sometimes leaving the wounds that last forever. The severity of assault makes a deep emotional block on the victim’s mind, sometimes making pushing them to sink forever.
Diminished social confidence, hopelessness and post trauma get the victim to a point of no return. Most rape subjects get into an incurable state of clinical depression and other psychological disorders like Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
The ramifications of rape are not simple. They leave an eternal wound both physically and mentally. Friends and family of a rape victim have to understand that they are more required than ever for the assaulted. The woman who has been raped faces tremendous wrath from the most modern to laidback conservative sections of society in the Country. People do not understand that the casualty of rape should not be held accountable for what has transpired. There needs to be an increased awareness across the classes about physical and sexual violence on a woman.
Experts state that rape victims tend to shut themselves away from the world, and this guilt feeling stems mostly from the upbringing and the background where the victim hails from. In a country like India where moral high ground is of imminent value, people with narrow outlook and closed minds shun the victim away. This is a shameful tendency exhibited even from the most educated. The victim will find it difficult to find a partner later, and if she has already been married, the spouse is most likely to walk out of the relationship. With crime growing on women day after day, doctors say that people should come out of the closets and embrace the naked fact, holding a man accountable for the damage inflicted on the fairer sex.
Rape casts some heinous after effects on a woman. The physical ailments that follow after being coercively abused include urinary infections, uterine fibroids, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, genital warts, syphilis and chlamydia. The victim will have serious conditions affecting her for the rest of life, limiting her from dreaming or doing anything ahead. Normalcy becomes far from reach.
The mental effects are further more nerve racking and daunting on the individual exposed to the attack. Experts say that rape victims suffer both short and long term mental ailments. The incident itself remains with them like a nightmare, refusing to ever go away from thoughts. Some other conditions include Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Depression, chilling flashbacks, borderline personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, anger and feeling of personal powerlessness etc. These overcome the woman strongly post which she may never stand up for herself. Very few brave hearts fight the incident in their minds and move on in life – or atleast they try to.
The health care providers all over the world now have specialized treatment for rape victims. India is also slowly picking up on more clinical and psychological counselling imparted to enable the victims to cope with the trauma. Sadly, not many show any signs of improvement despite repeated attempts. This is the story of urban crowd. The circumstances with the rural India are even more gruesome. Little girls aged from two to fifteen are subjected to silent abuse. The crime reports state that some girls in parts of rural sections are repeatedly raped and blackmailed to keep their mouth shut about the incident. The instances get repulsive when the girls are raped by their own fathers and brothers. Many women organizations and Mahila Morchas are trying to help these innocent victims to open up about the culprit and come out of the tangles.
Another concern is about the victims filing First Information Report (FIR) on the incident and the accused. Most educated women who escape alive do not even approach the cops to file a case. The recent spree of horrendous rape cases have seen girls abused gorily and murdered at the scene of crime. Such cases get solved with great difficulty considering very little clues left after the incident.
This and many more, the women feel highly insecure and unsafe in this democracy. A lot of work is still needed to identify the solution for the ongoing onslaught on the women.
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