PTSD and Domestic Violence Survivors Want Their Pain and Suffering Recognized and Believed

The most important thing is that the family court starts to feel more like a place where these women can take these really grave concerns and feel like it's at least likely that they might get a fair outcome. I think particularly being aware of trauma-informed practice, Dr. Karen Williams says that 53% of women who have experienced domestic violence will get a mental health diagnosis at some point. She said 90% of those diagnoses happen after the abuse has happened. Her belief is that post-traumatic stress disorder and the way people react to years of horrible things happening to them isn't taken into account in the way women respond.