Dr. K. V. Anand
Psychiatry
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Hi doctor,
I do not want a therapy, but I would like your opinion on what kind of personality or problems a person could develop as an adult if the following happened to him as a child. He got sick as a kid from meningitis in the 60´s. His uncle was a pediatric and placed him on a first check in the hospital to make sure that the child as a patient was calm. He forbade his mother from seeing him in the hospital, and the mother did not come after a dramatic goodbye scene from the kid at the hospital. He was 4 going 5 at that time. In the hospital, he was tied up to make sure the baxters did not get disturbed. At night, his father and the doctor sneaked unannounced to grab him for a spine puncture. As the kid wrestled and cried from the pain of the puncture, the uncle was very angry and said that kids should not cry. So, the next time it happened, the kid shut up an vowed not to make a sound. After seven days at the hospital, the kid was then taken to the uncle's house where his aunt took care of him, and this during a full month. Only after a month, he saw his mother back.
Hello,
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I am sorry to hear that you experienced these traumatic events in your childhood. The given events are traumatic. When a person experiences continuous traumatic events in his life, he could develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This could happen at any time during his life. During his young adolescent and young adult days, this may not happen. But could happen in later stages, especially in old age. The second possibility is obsessive-compulsive disorder (continuous negative thinking). But, this has to happen during his adolescent age period and should continue further. The third possibility is depression and anxiety. This should also start in the person's adolescent age period and should continue further. The fourth possibility is psychoses, but this incident is rare. You are already sixty. If you have not experienced anxiety, depression, OCD, etc., during your younger age, those may not be due to the incident that happened in your childhood. You could have developed those due to some other reasons now. PTSD is a possibility, but again psychological assessment is needed. The above are all theory and these could happen but not for sure at all. There are many people who underwent continuous traumatic incidents in their childhood but lived unscathed throughout their life. Mental resolve is the key. Thank you.
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