Childhood stressor

One of the stressors I have experienced during my childhood was CHAOS.  My mother and father had five of us together and my mother and father was married but my father was never around. Before my father left home and abandoned us,my siblings and I witness my father and mother physically fighting one another all the time. My mother and father argued and physically fought. My father slept around with other women all through the times they were dating and after marriage. My mother and father were separated but still married and my mother begin dating other men and was murdered by one of her boyfriends while she was pregnant. My siblings were inside in out of court rooms, counseling sessions and finally split up to be with different family members. So yes there was tons of Chaos and I have not even mentioned half of it.

I learned to cope the hard way because counseling did not work for me and I shut down and my thoughts eventually took over me. I attempted suicide and my thoughts were swamped with it. I change my attitude and I believe it was one of the hardest things I had to do. I had to change my thought process and I started writing in a journal.

I would like to know more about Haiti. I think there is so much stress in the young children in this area because they suffer from lack of education, hunger, and grief daily. These young children are usually on their own and their parents aren't around either. The lack of love and support from parents will mentally cause so many problems to these young children. Kids in Chaotic dysfunctional homes also lack medical care and proper nutrition. This can become a huge issues leading up to everything else that a young child needs. Mental health care systems are being brought to thought to be built in Haiti, in the mean time little to no clinics are doing with they can.

http://www.cleveland.com/parents/index.ssf/2012/01/when_toxic_stress_in_children.html

http://www.psysr.org/blog/2010/09/30/mental-health-in-haiti/