Post Abortion Counseling
You may think you’re the only one. You feel guilt, anxiety, anger, numbness and depression. You have flashbacks of your abortion experience.
No, you’re not alone. The fact is, thousands of women share these feelings. Many develop eating disorders or abuse alcohol and drugs. Some experience uncontrollable crying episodes, insomnia and develop low self-esteem.
If you have experienced any of these feelings as a result of abortion, you may be experiencing Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS).
Through Post Abortion Counseling, you will begin to resolve and deal with the emotions that have haunted you and kept you from the joy and freedom that God wants for you!
Along with a small group of other women who share the feelings of guilt and depression, you and your counselor will examine your feelings and God’s Word. Together you’ll find the joy you’ve denied yourself.
Through this program and after putting years of grief and depression behind her, one lady writes that she “danced for the child who is now in heaven and to give expression to my love for him and for God and His mercy toward me”. She was freed.
Post Abortion Counseling is a Bible study based on Forgiven and Set Free by Linda Cochrane.
A caring counselor who has also experienced abortion facilitates the 12-week program in the privacy of a small group setting. There is no charge for this or any of Mooresville Community Pregnancy Center’s services.
Symptoms of Post Abortion Syndrome
- guilt
- anxiety
- psychological “numbing”
- depression - unexplained feelings of sadness, uncontrollable crying, thoughts of suicide
- interruption of sleep
- loss of appetite
- sexual disturbances
- reduced motivation
- disruption in interpersonal relationships
- anniversary syndrome - increased PAS at anniversary date of the abortion or the child’s due date
- flashbacks of your abortion experience
- preoccupation with becoming pregnant again
- anxiety over fertility and childbearing issues
- interruption in bonding process with your children
- alcohol and drug abuse
- anger and rage
- other punishing or self-degrading behaviors
- inability to forgive yourself