Long-Term Impacts of Harassment

Harassment, in its various forms, has long-term impacts on the individuals around it. Not only physical trauma, but psychological and emotional trauma is also experienced when experiencing understanding. The most common impact is depression. Symptoms of depression can be characterized by feelings of sadness, frustration, depression, and hopelessness. Post-traumatic stress disorder is also common. This disorder makes victims feel excessive fear, anxiety, and stress. It is not uncommon for some victims to express sexual problems by deliberately injuring themselves. Usually, they will feel hatred towards themselves after receiving sexual exposure, thus hurting themselves. Apart from disrupting the victim's mental health, sexual violence can also cause bacterial or viral infections, which are transmitted by the perpetrator. This disease occurs sexually, anally, and orally. In short, sexual harassment has multiple and long-term impacts on environmental victims.