If you have wandered around this website, you will notice that there are links to a bunch of other websites all of which represent possible results of having been verbally, emotionally, sexually, or physically abused: substance abuse, borderline disorder, post traumatic stress, and there's more too. An abused person could become both a victim (say of a spouse or boss at work) and an abuser (say of a child. A victim could turn to eating disorders or even multiple personalities (now known as "dissociative identity disorder") as a way of hiding from the pain.
