What is abuse? Abuse can occur in many forms. There’s senior citizen abuse, spouse abuse, verbal abuse and child abuse. The more sever of these is child abuse. When children are abused they can develop PTSD, bipolar disease, and most cases behavioral problems.	
	In general, many children who have been abused develop a problem called PTSD.  Also known as post traumatic stress disorder. Some symptoms of PTSD include becoming over whelmed with their coping mechanism. These create intense feelings of fear and helplessness. Also, they will have nightmares about the event and distressing memories about it also. In infants they may cry often. Commonly associated with abuse, neglect, and trauma induced impairment. As a preteen, the child may initially show agitated or confused behavior. Upon feeling all these emotions the preteen will avoid situations or places that remind them of trauma, and will become detached from their feelings. When the child becomes a teen, PTSD makes them feel worthless. The teen may become anti-social and stay away from adults because they do not trust them. Some may have thoughts of death and could possibly try to commit suicide. No matter the age, PTSD affects the child throughout their lives.
	In some cases, the children could develop bipolar disease. This is a mood disorder with marked changes in mood between happiness and severe depression. Most of the time, they will display risk taking behaviors such as sexual promiscuity and anti-social behavior. They will not tell anyone what is going on because they are afraid that if they tell the adult who has abused them will not love them. Afraid of losing that love is what keeps them from talking about what is happening with them, as a result they develop PTSD.
Finally learning disorders can be a problem. These cause children to feel like they are useless. It makes them not want to try hard. Children begin to develop behavioral problems such as fighting, scratching, and biting. Severe physical aggression may mean that the child is having emotional or behavioral problems. When the fighting and hitting is frequent it may mean that the child has other problems. Then, it is in the best interest of the children to get medical help. Having a learning disorder increases frustration at school because they are unhappy about their performance. Because they do no trust adults, they will not ask for help. Obviously learning disorders are common. Children who are abused have problems
 Parents paying close attention to the child it can help reduce the high risk of stress of PTSD. Keep get bipolar disease diagnosed a head of time before the child starts to show signs of anything being wrong. Enroll them in to a learning program so that they feel comfortable getting help from adults. In conclusion more attention should be paid to the steady growth of abused children. Abused children should get paid more attention because these children are scared, have low self-esteem, and that can have an effect on their behavior. --------Melia Rowe