MY DAUGHTER IS 11 & HAS PTSD AND IS ON LEXAPRO FOR IT & HER ANXIETY IS SO BAD FROM WHAT SHE SAW HER FATHER DO. SHE WAS SO SCARED & FILLED WILL ANXIETY LASY YR WHEN I WAS GOING FINALLY 4 DIVORCE THE KIDS WEREN;T SEEING HIM, & I WAS FIGHTING 4 HIM TO NOT SEE THEM THAT SHE WAS BITING THRU HER NAIL, CRACKING HER KNUCKLES,PICKING HER FOREHEAD, & LOTS MORE. MY YOUNGEST SON WHO'S 8 HAS AHDH, & RAGE IMPULSE COMTROL ISSUES , & PTSD, ALL THIS FROM WATCHING THEIR FATHER ABUSE ME THEIR WHOLE LIVES. NOW HE IS DIFFERNT, HE GETS ANXIETY BUT HE HAS VIOLENT TENDECIES AGAINST HIS FATHER. THEY FINALLY SNAPPED ONE DAY LAST YEAR WHEN THEIR FATHER WENT INTO A RAGE AGAINST ME WHILE VISITING THEM. KIDS CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH OF SEEING THEIR MOTHER ABUSED, I TRIED TO TELL HIM THEY'D HAVE DAY WHERE ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH. i THOUGH THEY'D BE OLDER. HE DIDN'T THINK VERBAL ABUSE WAS ABUSE OR THAT IT WAS ABUSING THEM WHEN THE WITNESSED IT. THEIR GUARDIAN-AD-LITEM FOUGHT FOR THEM & GOT THE KIDS WHAT THEY WANTED. NO CONTACT AFTER THE DIVORCE WAS FINAL UNLESS THE KIDS DECIDE DIFFERENT WITH THEIR THERAPIST. THIS WON'T HAPPEN. HE'S SEVERED HIS ROLE IN THEIR EYES. I WISH THEY'D HAD A FATHER BUT THEY NEVER REALLY DID.