Emotional Symptoms of Post-Abortion Trauma:

If abortion is about a women's choice, shouldn't she be told what will happen to her after her abortion? It is normal after an abortion to feel emotionally injured. These emotional scars can last for years to come. Here I focus on specific problems like:

~ Anger / Rage

~ Helplessness

~ Guilt

~ Shame

~ Grief / Loss

~ Relationship problems

~ Anxiety / Panic

~ Depression

~ Regret / Sorrow

~ Hopelessness

~ Self - hatred

~ Bitterness

~ Feeling uncomfortable w/infants/children/pregnant women

~ Feeling of isolation / alienation

~ Feeling like you are going crazy

~ Inability to be emotionally intimate

~ Frequent crying

~ Vivid nightmares

~ Hallucinations / Flashbacks

~ Child Abuse or Neglect

~ Inability to bond with your children

~ Drug and alcohol abuse

~ Insomnia (inability to sleep)

~ Promiscuity

~ Fear that others will find out

~ Fear of never having children

~ Fear of losing the children you have

~ Fear of having a deformed child

~ Fear of abusing your children

~ Fear of God's punishment

~ Distrust of men

~ Distrust of doctors

~ Inability to make good decisions

~ Physical reations when abortion is mentioned (such as, your body tensing up, feeling sick to your stomach, heart pounding or light headed)

~ Post-Partum Depression or Anxiety (after the birth of a subsequent child)

~ Feeling of numbness

~ Suicidal thoughts / actions

~ Sexual inhibition

~ Anorexia (starving yourself)

~ Bulimia (bingeing / purging)

~ Overprotective parenting

~ Obsessive thoughts about the aborted child / children~ Extreme weight gain

Source: Healing Hearts Ministry