Our Michigan dog bite lawyers represent children injured due to dog bites and dog attacks. In additon to physical injuries, like scars, nerve damage, and broken bones, many dog bite victims suffer from psychological injuries. Becoming a victim of a dog bite injury or attack can be a very traumatic experience to endure and it can ultimately affect the entire family.
The emotional effects on the victims of dog attacks can include fear, depression, withdrawal and anger. These problems can occur immediately or sometime after the tragic event. Sometimes people will develop post traumatic stress disorder ("PTSD") and/or other persistent problems.
Emotional injuries are essentially a normal response to an extreme event. Emotional injury involves the creation of emotional memories, which arise through a long lasting effect on structures deep within the brain. The more direct exposure to the traumatic event, the higher the risk for emotional harm.
Children and adolescents exposed to a traumatic events frequently lose trust in adults and have fear that the event may occur again. Other reactions vary according to age. Some children and adolescents will have prolonged problems after a traumatic event. These potentially chronic conditions include depression, prolonged grief and PTSD which symptoms include:
Re-experiencing the event through play or in trauma-specific nightmares or flashbacks, or distress over events that resemble or symbolize the trauma.
Routine avoidance of reminders of the event or a general lack of responsiveness (e.g., diminished interests or a sense of having a foreshortened future).
Clearly, treatment of victims of dog bites should include an evaluation of these emotional and psychological factors - especially in children. Because the psychological and emotional problems from a dog bite attack are often significant, it is important that the dog bite victim had the best possible legal representation.
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