Psychological violence against women is an invisible aggression that affects more than half of the women in Mexico and leaves long-term economic and emotional consequences, experts said this Thursday when presenting a study organized by Hispanics in Philanthropy.
Activist Luisa Herze stated that the consequences of this type of violence remain for a long time with disproportionate effects, making it difficult for women to recover.
“The effects are devastating, they are tremendous and last for a long time, the consequences and effects are disproportionate, women feel a lot of anger, fear, hopelessness, the desire not to live, depression,” she explained at a press conference.
According to the 2021 National Survey of Household Dynamics in Mexico, 70% of women aged 15 years and older have suffered some type of violence and psychological violence is the most prevalent in Mexico among women, when it occurs in the 51.6% of the population, followed by sexual violence with 49.7%, which occurs at home and by the partner.
Psychological violence are acts that lead to devaluation and seek to reduce or eliminate the internal resources that a person has in their daily life and have to do with attitudes such as harassment and stalking, economic violence, emotional abuse, isolation, infidelity, jealousy, lies. and insults, physical and emotional abuse to daughters and sons.
Herze pointed out that these attacks also leave physical, emotional and economic traces on women, such as sleep disorders, suicidal ideation, diabetes, fibromyalgia, migraine, addictions, breakdown of their social relationships, economic problems and loss of assets when having to abandon their family. home and difficulty getting or keeping a job.
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The activist presented the results of the ‘Research on psychological violence in Mexico’ carried out by the Hispanics in Philanthropy association in conjunction with civil organizations from Yucatán, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Aguascalientes and Chiapas and which included 35 women survivors of this type of violence. assault.
María Azucena Morales, one of the victims, assured that having experienced psychological violence from her partner marked her life and that of her daughters, since she also suffered physical violence and left her home.
“When you have an experience like that, maybe you can run away from your home, but somehow you stay. Those actions are not pleasant at all, it was as if they were pins that stay stuck in your body and freeze you, immobilize you, you lose the power of yourself, you stop being a woman to become something that has to be in that place and has to continue,” he said.
Lydia Cordero, coordinator of the Casa Amiga organization in Ciudad Juárez, pointed out that each year they serve up to 2,500 women a year, of which 70% report having experienced psychological violence.
“It is a violence that, by not leaving a mark and not having a visible sample, is normalized, it is difficult to identify, women do not easily identify it and in addition the effects are extremely devastating and can take years to move to more emotional spaces.” healthy,” he concluded.
With information from EFE
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