True story of Bangladeshi women with childhood trauma who heroically faced the trials of life

Abstract

Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participants will be able to know how three women victim of childhood trauma; terribly suffered and tackled their situation. They were born in a developing Muslim country.

This paper also intends to aware people about victims of childhood trauma and their need for mental and social support.

Methods

Personal interview with these three subjects who were close persons of the researcher. Description of their suffering and way of tackling it were noted. The words were carefully placed as a story.

Results

Two of the subjects sexually abused by close relatives in their childhood. The third one was abused for as long time as 17 years. All the subjects suffered severely from headache and flatulence from childhood, insomnia and terrifying dreams, sense of insecurity, depression, PTSD.

Despite all the grief and pain, these three became highly educated, holding well position in the society and directly indirectly working for distressed women.

Conclusions

The author concludes that childhood trauma can damage a victim in many ways in her entire life.

Social support, sharing the incidents with others, counseling may reduce her pain.

Religious acts like prayer, reading Holy Book, remembrance of Allah, serving humanity and helping distressed women may console the victim.

These three women's heroic lives may give motivation for women with childhood trauma. Even they may inspire others to act like heroes in hardship of life.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.