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Her pattern of behaviour is also consistent with the bpd, which frequently involve delusions of persecution. Suicidal ideation and severe anxiety are unfortunately not rare in adolescence either, and certainly don't evidence sexual abuse - when not reported or remembered at the time.


BPD itself is known to be caused by childhood trauma, though both psychological and physiological mechanisms:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472954/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.7213...

Not to mention the well-established phenomenon of repressing memories of traumatic events, as well as the general memory impairment effects of chronic stress.


Is your position then that if a pre-adolescent child does not immediately report abuse with objective evidence and coherent testimony that we can only conclude nothing happened?




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