Everything about Battered Person Syndrome totally explained
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Battered person syndrome is a physical and
psychological condition that's classified as
ICD-9 code "Battered person syndrome" NEC or otherwise included within
DSM-IV as a sub-category of
post-traumatic stress disorder.
This condition has been used as a defense by women who have experienced long-term
physical and
psychological abuse, and have killed their abusers. This was called
battered woman syndrome by Lenore Walker (1979).
Symptomology
ICD9 code 995.81
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) shows the syndrome as including "battered person/man/spouse syndrome NEC" and any person presenting with identified physical descriptors rather than psychological descriptors falls under the general heading of "Adult physical abuse", classified under "Injury and Poisoning"
(External Link). In lay terms, this is a reference to any person who, because of constant and severe
domestic violence usually involving
physical abuse by a partner, becomes depressed and unable to take any independent action that would allow him or her to escape the abuse. The condition explains why abused people often don't seek assistance from others, fight their abuser, or leave the abusive situation. Sufferers have low
self-esteem, and often believe that the abuse is their fault. Such persons usually refuse to press criminal charges against their abuser, and refuse all offers of help, often becoming aggressive or abusive to others who attempt to offer assistance. Often sufferers will even seek out their very abuser for comfort shortly after an incident of abuse.
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