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ABUSE knows no bounds
ABUSE Magazine wants to congratulate Ryan Lecus, a senior at Union Grove High School in Union Grove Wisconsin. ABUSE Magazine and our staff wants to congratulate him for winning the ABUSE Scholarship and we encourage him to pursuit his academic goals. We also would like to encourage future seniors to participate in our essay contest.
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Abuse, a nasty word that has the power to destroy lives and knows no bounds. It can also affect us in ways that can shake the base of who we are as individuals. Knowing that abuse is not ok is a start from helping issues, but to take it a step further and actually stop or prevent abuse is key to bettering our lives. In the past I have been a victim of mental abuse and have known friends that have been victims of physical abuse, I have also known people with drug abuse problems so I can say from personal experience that knowing how to deal with situations before things get out of hand will prevent you from making wrong choices.
In my opinion, one of the worse types of abuse is mental. I’ m not trying to say by any means that the other two are any less serious, but it is the most difficult one to deal with and also the most difficult one to prove. A situation, in which I was being mentally abused, was when I had no choice but to be in the company of miserable people. It is my belief that these people were so unhappy they wanted me to be the same. I would always hear about how useless I was, about how I was nothing and will always amount to nothing. This occurred on an everyday basis, so I handled the situation by going to my father and I told him exactly what was being said and done and how I felt about it. Not much time went by and he took care of it and I no longer have to deal with these people. When I look back on it, I think that I handled the situation very well, I never got violent and I never lashed out at them.
The next form of abuse I would like to cover is physical abuse. As I have previously said, mental abuse is the most difficult to deal with as well as poof of mental abuse, physical abuse is the total opposite from mental abuse. It is one of the most easy to prove, that is because it usually leaves marks and there is physical evidence that abuse happened. The best way to deal with physical abuse is to go to the police as soon as possible so that they can take a report of anything serious. I don’ t have any relevant experiences where I was the victim of physical abuse although I have had friends that have. A few years back I had a friend who had a boyfriend who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The tow got into an argument and he hit her, I told her to just break up with him and leave it at that, now looking back I would have told her to report it right away and let the police take care of it. Since this happened when I was younger I didn’ t really know what to do, all I can say is that she’ s lucky that after she broke up with he didn’ t bother her anymore. If I could do things differently, I would have told her to file a police report just to make sure that something got done to ensure that it wouldn’ t happen again.
Lastly, I would like to discuss drug abuse. Yes, using drugs and alcohol is abuse and it is so because it can wreak havoc on your body. It is important to be aware of because the possible side effects very possibly lead to the death of the person abusing a substance or who is ever around that person. There used to be a guy I was
friends with who was a heavy drinker and partier. He started getting into marijuana and other really bad drugs. I told him that I wasn’ t going to hang out with him anymore if he continued to do what he was doing because there were times that I didn’ t feel safe around him. Last I heard he went to jail, he messed up big time and will probably live a very challenging life because of it. If I could have changed what I did, I would have tried a little harder to get him some help.
As we now know, abuse is a horrible thing that can take on many different forms. It has the power to damage us on many different levels and in some cases can ruin our lives. It is so important to know what to do in these situations because it can sometimes prevent abuse from happening as well as stop abuse if it has already started. Just remember, if you or someone you know is a victim of abuse, don’ t be afraid to get help.