6. Chronic depression
Anxiety
Chronic pain
Death
Dehydration
Dissociative states
Drug and alcohol dependence
Eating disorders
Emotional "over-reactions" to
stimuli
General emotional numbing
Health problems
Malnutrition
Panic attacks
Repeated self-injury
Self neglect
Sexual dysfunction
Sleep disorders
Strained family relationships
Suicide attempts
Inability to adequately
respond to the needs of their
children
Miscarriages. 6
9. STUDY BY MEDICAL STUDENTS
AKU (CLASS OF 1996)
In a sample of 176 males :-
• 27% practiced physical abuse.
• 76% recognized it as mistreatment.
• 46% felt men have a right to hit women.
• 68% practiced isolation.
• 44% did not see it as abuse.
12. In 1983, domestic violence
was recognized as a
specific criminal offence
by the introduction of
section 498-A into the
Indian Penal Code. This
section deals with cruelty
by a husband or his family
towards a married
woman. 12