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Post-Abortion syndrome is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. The process of making an abortion choice, experiencing the procedure and living with the grief, pain and regret is certainly, at its very core, traumatic. As with any trauma, individuals often try to "forget" the ordeal and deny or ignore any pain that may result. Many simply don't relate their distress to the abortion experience. At some point, however, memories resurface and the truth of this loss can no longer be denied. During these moments, the pain of post-abortion syndrome reveals itself in the hearts of millions of lives. abortion

The symptoms of post abortion syndrome will not necessarily appear at the same time, nor is likely that any woman will experience the entire list. Some may occur immediately after an abortion and others much later. If you can identify with more than two of these symptoms, it could be that you are experiencing post-abortion syndrome.

Below are the symptoms that describe post-abortion syndrome, as described by Dr. Paul and Teri Reisser in their book, Help for the Post-Abortive Woman (now entitled A Solitary Sorrow):

1. Guilt. Guilt is what an individual feels when she has violated her own moral code. For the woman who has come to believe, at some point either before or after the abortion, that she consented to the killing of her unborn child, the burden of guilt is relentless. There is little consolation to offer the woman who has transgressed one of nature's strongest instincts: the protection a mother extends to her young. In fact, many post-abortive women believe that any unhappy events that have occurred since the abortion were inevitable because they "deserve it."

2. Anxiety. Anxiety is defined as an unpleasant emotional and physical state of apprehension that may take the form of tension, (inability to relax, irritability, etc.), physical responses (dizziness, pounding heart, upset stomach, headaches, etc.), worry about the future, difficulty concentrating and disturbed sleep. The conflict between a woman's moral standards and her decision to abort generates much of this anxiety. Very often, she will not relate her anxiety to a post-abortion syndrome abortion, and yet she will unconsciously begin to avoid anything having to do with babies. She may make excuses for not attending a baby shower, skip the baby aisle at the grocery store and so forth.

Abortion is a controversial subject in any culture from moral, religious, personal beliefs and medical views of what is right, wrong and the rights of women. In this article I will try to show the approach taken from a psychotherapeutic point of view as to how a woman can be assisted in making decisions about her own well-being, the life of the unborn baby, the personal and social impact of that decision on her life, her family and her relationships. We will also cover briefly and in context the idea of termination, of having an unplanned miscarriage and sudden infant death including infanticide of children in a further paper to be published.

The first evidence of an abortion goes back to an Egyptian Ebers Papyrus in 1550 BC that depicted the methods used for relieving the women of the unborn child. (1) Various accounts in history going back hundreds of years discussing abortion whether accepted or not and the penalties of killing an unborn child (often inflicted on the women for disobeying her husband in losing her baby) can be seen - this is not a modern medical choice but a historical phenomenon showing that abortion was an issue from the very beginning as controversial and difficult topic to discuss.

In modern days the issue across cultures still rages on with particularly polarised religious and moralistic viewpoints as to what is right, what is allowed and what is seen as wrong (an offence) it is under this pressure and social umbrella that women have to come to terms with the decision of whether once they discover they are pregnant how to decide whether they should terminate of not.

Psychotherapy itself makes no judgemental issue as to the rights and wrongs of abortion although individual therapists may have strong religious or moral views of the topic. Where the therapist does have a conflict of judgement they should clearly remove themselves from the situation of counselling a woman or couple of an abortion choice and should leave the matter to more professional therapists that stand by their non-judgemental stance in therapeutic situations. Any psychoanalyst who allows his or her personal prejudices into the therapy room should seriously consider a change of profession or at least declare that their professionalism is tainted by their own belief system. In saying this one should also declare their personal beliefs whether in the pro-life camp or the free to decide camp.

In the start of a therapy session boundaries and objectivity should be set from the beginning with the client (patient) letting her or them know the limitations of your service and the difficulty in arriving at a any decision that feels emotionally completely right. In my own practice I usually set the boundary of who makes the decision to abort of not. I make it abundantly clear that the final say is in the hands of the pregnant woman only. That her partner, medical advisers, counsellors, family members are only secondary considerations to her own well-being and decision. This sense of responsibility is very important in the emotional recovery of deciding to go ahead with an abortion. Later she cannot look to anyone else as forcing her, influencing her or otherwise persuading her to go ahead when she was not sure. She must accept it is her decision and her final responsibility to go ahead or not. The reason this is important is that after the event she needs to be emotionally clear that she made the best decision for herself. help pregnant mother abortion clinics pills : people will help you in this tough moments to cope with your emotions and feelings and what to do next and where to go.Referral to local resources and distance free web/phone 24/7 personal and group support.