People say children are happy.
Without these experiences, there would not have been the drive and ambition to overcome and strive for more. The litany of sexual abuse consequences both initial and long term is extensive and multi-faceted. As will be seen, this construct helps provide explanation of why there is such a complex and convoluted symptomatology resulting from abuse, and how therapy may be efficiently oriented toward resolution or at least amelioration of problematic behaviors in survivors. But in general it is the consensus of theorists and clinicians that suppression is likely to be traumagenic or maladaptive. To a considerable extent, the cognitive adaptations to trauma, including sexual abuse, may delimit or interfere with the ongoing cognitive developmental tasks of childhood.