I met a woman yesterday afternoon that brought this event to my attention. She is a victim of domestic violence. She ended up in the hospital with a broken jaw. She finally got out of the situation and the man who did it is now where he belongs; behind bars.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association states women who’ve been the victim of rape, sexual assault, stalking, or intimate-partner violence are much more likely to develop a mental disorder.
In the study, researchers in Australia found 57 percent of women who’d suffered at least one incident of abuse also had a history of depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress,