Get informed : Violence
questions about violence
What is violence?
Violence in your life
If you’re experiencing violence, you may need help because:
- You’re suffering
- The episodes of violence are increasingly more frequent and intense, and you’re unable to escape the vicious circle of violence on your own
- You’d like to be supported and feel less alone
- Learn how to manage your emotions differently
- Develop non-violent ways of responding to your needs and attaining your objectives
- Tolerate other people’s choices and accept that the fact that you can’t control other people’s choices does not in any way reduce your power over you own life (read more here about ways to help yourself if you commit acts of violence)
- Learn to stand up for yourself concerning the violence you witness
- Support the person who has experienced violence, and help them get help
- Avoid taking all the responsibility on your own shoulders, and ending up with the other’s person’s problem becoming your own problem (read more here about what you can do to help a friend or another person who is a victim of violence).