

Before long, the child gives up on seeking any kind of help or connection at all. Rage creates fear, and disgust creates shame in the child in a way that soon teaches her to refrain from crying out, from ever asking for attention. Contempt is a toxic cocktail of verbal and emotional abuse, a deadly amalgam of denigration, rage and disgust. Contempt is extremely traumatizing to a child, and at best, extremely noxious to an adult. Many dysfunctional parents react contemptuously to a baby or toddler’s plaintive call for connection and attachment. “Origins Of Cptsd How do traumatically abused and/or abandoned children develop Cptsd? While the origin of Cptsd is most often associated with extended periods of physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood, my observations convince me that ongoing verbal and emotional abuse also causes it.
