man put toddler in hot dryer

What a fucker...how dare he put a small child in a hot dryer. These types of stories make me literally sick to my stomach. I never feel pain so deep until I read such stories. I feel the physical and mental pain of these poor children that are abused. I didn't even read the story...just the headline...that was enough to make me sink into bed for an hour and have a hard cry. Not for my pain, but for that of the child. I've seen and treated children who have been abused. There are no words to describe this. I was told early in my training that children are resilient. And...some of them are. It's amazing how children really do accomodate and assimilate what is dished out to them. However, they never forget. The abuse that is done is "hardwired" into their brains...not necessarily in visual images, but in the biochemistry that makes up their brains. The chemicals that help structure their brains early in life are impacted by such things as anxiety, fear, depression, worry, etc. etc...these emotional states are the result of chemical reactions in the brain. These chemical reactions influence the evolving and developing brain. A brain awash in anxiety and fear can be different (key word: can) from the brain awash in joy and laughter. Go figure, right? So, word to the wise...the children may "forget" but their brains do not. You WILL damage your child with abuse...those of you who do abuse, you know exactly what I'm talking about...You just don't have the balls to see it and face it.