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1 Final paper: Study of a Life Journey Vicky Caldwell University of Arizona Global Campus PSY 5130: Life Span Development Dr. Lori December 11, 2023

2 Final paper: Study of a Life Journey The life journey I chose to write my paper based on my life journey which includes the required information that’s matches Erikson’s theoretical life span development. Erikson’s theory explains that each stage of children’s life span development is guided by their environment. Erikson’s life span development demonstrates that all aspects in one’s life are affected from the time of conception to adulthood. However, my life span development stages were behind from the beginning to middle adulthood. I have not reached the age for late adulthood. Erikson’s development involves eight stages of life span development. My life’s journey involves Erikson’s, Freuds, and Resilience theory. Prenatal and Infancy: When my mother found out she was pregnant with me she was surprised due to having three miscarriages and four still born before she had my brother. The doctors told my mother after she had my brother, she could not have any more children because she had to have her uterus stitched up to carry my brother to terms due to the amniotic sack breaking which caused the babies to not get nutrients. My brother was fifteen months old when I was born. I weighed 4 lbs. 3 oz at birth. My mother and father moved to rock ford Illinois after I was born three days old when mother and father took me to Rockford Illinois. I started running a high fever and stopped breathing. I was flown to the children’s hospital in Springfield Missouri where I spent seven months in an incubator and oxygen tent. When I was released from the hospital, I weighed 6 lbs. and 5 oz. 15 inches long therefore, my mother had to bottle feed me with fresh goats’ milk however, due to delayed development I was fed only 1 oz of milk while in the hospital after I was released to go home. I had moved to 3 oz of milk for the first year of my life. My mother could not breast feed due to not producing enough milk and me being allergic to my

3 mother’s milk. My mother could not produce enough breasts milk due to lack of nutrition involving the five food groups although expectant mothers require low fat dairy, low sodium, protein, vegetables, fruits, and grains. The auditory system enables the fetus to develop sensorimotor mapping, which enables the development of taste, smell, touch, vision, and movement of arms, legs, and hands (Fagard et al. 2018). The doctors told my mother that my development, both cognitive and physical development, will be delayed due to my being born premature. The senses of perception are smell, touch, and taste. Due to my low birth weight and amniotic sack leaking fluid scheduled a c-section at 32 weeks instead of thirty-seven weeks and my lung function was low. The physician decided to deliver me prematurely therefore my development stages was delayed in crawling, learn how to suckle a bottle, or eat baby food. Some senses develop after the first few weeks of conception, such as twitching, which occurs approximately seven to eight weeks. The following sensory of perception developed involves sensorimotor behavior development, which includes the hearing sensory, which develops before birth along with the auditory system. The auditory system plays a vital role before infants are born and continues to play a vital role in other areas of development throughout their lives. My mother dressed me up in dresses when I was during my infancy. Also, from the time I was two years old my biological father was giving me beer in my baby bottle, my mother knew about it but did not protect me. Early Childhood: My biological father was self-employed but did his own work hours while he was operating a sawmill. My mother had to work outside of the house to help pay bills. In the early childhood stages my mother made me wear dresses with shorts under them due to be a tomboy and hanging upside down on the monkey bars. I was sexually abused by my father at three years of age. My father would wait until my mother went to work then he sexually abuses

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4 me before taking me to the babysitter’s house. My mother picked me and my brother up from the sitter’s house. When my father would come home from work usually drunk and start yelling at my mother about what she cooked for dinner or if he found a little bit of dust on the shelves. Then my father would come into my room after my mother and brother went to bed. He then proceeded to sexually abuse again before he went to bed which continued until I started school at six years of age. In the Galena MO school district did not have a kindergarten instead went from HeadStart to first grade. I was supposed to start second grade at six years old instead I was held back a year in first grade. Therefore, I was behind other children my age in cognitive, social, and overall development skills. I tried to tell my mother what was happening to me; however, my mother chose to ignore what was happening. While at Abbeville elementary I was bullied from first to sixth grade due to being held back in first grade and being smaller than all the children. Which sent me on a down hill spiral of not liking school and being a loner did not interact with my peers at school or at home. When I entered fourth grade I was tested to determine if learning disabilities using a psycho-educational learning evaluation to test my cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional functioning. I experienced trust issues, did not like anyone touching me men or women which was a sign of autism. Middle childhood: When I entered middle childhood which occurs between seven and eleven years of age. The sexual abuse continued during the middle childhood stage before I started developing breasts. My mother continued to try dress me like a girl by insisting that I wear dresses and curled my hair for school pictures. Along with buying me dolls however, I would play with my brothers’ trucks, cars, played with male cousins, would rather beat boys up especially when they picked on my brother. I liked hauling hay and cutting wood rather than

5 learning how to cook or sew pretty much anything that girls were supposed to be learning I rebelled against everything that was supposed normal for a child my age. When I was nine years of age, I once again had a traumatic experience which involved my sixteen-year-old male cousin who asked my mother if he could take me for walk in the woods we lived in the country and going for a walk was not uncommon. However, while on the walk with my cousin he proceeded to push me on the ground and proceeded to rape me then threatened to have me locked me if I told anyone. I never told anyone he made me get up and get dressed before returning home. My cousin told me he loved me which is why he had his way with me. I was only nine years old did not know what love was or what intimacy meant. My family that was not a subject anyone discussed. Adolescent stage: During my adolescence years ranging between twelve and eighteen years of age. While most teens were learning to drive, getting jobs at sixteen, enjoy afterschool activities, and focusing on their education. I developed late in all aspects both physically, mentally and turned my emotions off. I was taught that displaying emotions were a sign of weakness, on the other hand my everyone else in the family was allowed to display emotions. I had blocked out what happened when I younger. I went through another traumatic experience at fourteen years of age I developed breast and a figure. My father would give me beer to drink with him and friends of the family, two of them were my biological uncles. My father had stopped molesting me but decided to parade me in front his friends ranged from 30’s to 40’s years of age. At fourteen I went from my father saying look at my daughter becoming an object to him. I told my mother but once again she did not believe me, she thought I was making it up which then ended up five adult men would get drunk and take advantage of me sexually.

6 The reasons the men used involved I must teach you what having a boyfriend would be like and called making love to me. I believed them at first since I did not know anything different therefore, I did not want breasts or a figure so I would dress like a boy with short, jeans, and lose t-shirts. I did not like putting makeup on, doing my hair like most girls my age. I had built a wall around myself to protect myself not physically but emotionally, I convinced myself at fours years old there was something wrong with me that made my parents and others do not want me except to use me. I entered junior high school was seventh and eighth grade I was retested to determine different levels of math, English, history, science, arts, and sports. My test scores were all low except in English, math scores were 4 th grade math, arts were 5 th grade, and I excelled in sports. My science scores well displayed I could not grasp or retain information. However, I was a hyper in as a child, could not sit still, or retain focused from elementary though high school. I had no friends in school my social skills were below average for my age group. The teachers met with my mother; my father did not attend the parent teachers conference due to his alcohol addiction. I was suspended or placed on detention several days in school due to skipping classes or getting into fights because of keeping my anger to myself. I figured since my mother or aunts or uncles did not believe me when I tried telling them about the abuse. I also convinced myself that no one would notice if I disappeared and never returned. I started drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana regularly at fourteen years of age which continued into the emerging adulthood stage. When I turned sixteen my brother was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down at that point my parents forgot they had daughter. I understood why my mother focused all her attention on my brother which left me vulnerable to more abuse with no one to protect me. I

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7 could not report the abuse to the local police or school officials because my family lived in the small town of Galena where everyone knew everyone. I tried to report the abuse to school officials however, since the individuals who worked at the school also owned the local bars and restaurants anything I said went straight back to my parents or other immediate family members. I did attend a local vocational trade school when I turned sixteen years of age where I learned how to make plaques out of wood, joined woodworking shop, and planned on joining the army passed the required tests at seventeen years of age. In my junior year I spoke with an army recruiter took the ASVAB test and passed with a 45 percent which was higher than required. At that moment I finally achieved something that would make my mother and father proud of me. The army recruiter came to my house to explain to my mother that out twenty students I passed with high ASVAB score. At that moment I finally felt a sense of accomplishment. However, my mother refused to sign the papers required for me to attend boot camp during the summer. The recruiter asked my mother why she refused to sign the required papers granting permission. My mother response to the recruiter was that Vicky would not make it because she never completes anything she starts and included that I was not smart enough. My mother also asked the recruiter are you sure Vicky did not cheat. At that moment I felt alone, a failure, and a disappointment to my parents and that my brother was the only one who mattered. I met the father of my children at seventeen I still did not know what love meant. But I wanted to get away from my father, so I chose to get married as soon as I turned eighteen. I knew by moving out my twelve-year nightmare would be finally over.

8 Emerging adulthood: I did not have enough credits to graduate high school, Galena High school did transfer my accrued credits to Gainesville High school where my husband went to high school. After getting married I moved in with him and his family. I got pregnant at nineteen years of age, however, I miscarried with my first baby got pregnant a year later with my oldest son, going to school and working. My oldest son was six months old when I became pregnant with my second son my husband at the time drove a semi-truck traveled forty-eight states. However, I had my daughter 4 years later. The company kept him on the road for three weeks to two months schedule before he could come home for a few days which left me with two infants, working on his parent’s farm plus taking care of children and taking care of the house. After eleven years of marriage my husband decided he wanted a divorce. I was not aware there were problems in our marriage prior to our divorce he wanted to know about my past I trusted him therefore I told him about the abuse I had experienced. However, little did I know he used my past against me and took my children away from me. Adulthood: I was twenty-nine when I met another man that I thought loved me but started abusing me emotionally and physically for seven years therefore, the nightmare started all over again. I started drinking hard alcohol after losing my children just to deal with the abuse plus working to support the man I was with. After seven years of abuse, he passed away with liver disease. I moved to Yakima WA where I met a different guy my self-esteem and self-confidence was zero, I thought being abused physically and mentally was a normal relationship. I was married to my second husband for three and half years he treated me good at first then after we got married, he treated me like an object. Once again after I talked about my past, he started treating me different.

9 My sister talked me into see a doctor who referred me to a psychologist who diagnosed me with severe depression, detachment disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity, attention deficit, social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I found out at forty-one years of age I had undiagnosed childhood ADHD and ADD. Through a mutual friend at forty-two years of age I met my soul mate. I had put up a wall around myself and turned off my emotions and tried to block out the traumatic experiences. I was put on social security retirement due to my mental disabilities at forty-one years old. My fourth relationship started as a friendship, then became best friends we both felt a strong bond we knew there was more than friendship. Which lead us admitting how we felt about each other then decided to follow through on our romantic relationship. I had told him a little about the abuse, but he listened when I needed to talk or even when I did not feel like talking he just held me I had told my finance’ about dream of one day going to college he suggested try online college and the world I was use to went away little by little which left room for me to explore a whole new world. I am continuing my college education because of encouragement from faience’. My goal involves using my degrees to become a child’s advocate and become a counselor to enable individuals in abusive relationships to provide them with someone to confide in who has experienced what they are going through. Erik Erikson’s Stages of Development: Based on information Erikson’s stages of development there are eight stages beginning at infancy to late adulthood. Based on Erikson’s theory I was in the eight phases of the lifespan development. Erikson’s stages of development are as follows; trust versus mistrust which equals hope, second phase is autonomy versus shame age ranges from 1 ½ to 3, third phase is initiative versus guilt equals purpose ages three to five, the fourth phase involves inferiority versus industry with the goal of competency ages five to twelve.

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10 The fifth phase range from twelve to eighteen years of age with the purpose of role confusion versus identity with a goal of fidelity, the sixth phase ranges from eighteen to forty years of age which the purpose of isolation versus intimacy with the goal of feeling loved. The seventh phase ranges from forty to sixty-five years of age with the purpose stagnation versus generativity with goal of caring. The eighth phase range from sixty-five years of age and higher the purpose of despair versus integrity with the goal of wisdom (Orenstein & Lewis, 2021). While researching the impact the different anxiety disorders play in life span development. The variables of anxiety disorders through various aspects of anxiety disorders affect an individual’s personal development phase. The variables can lead to reoccurring personality disorders such as bipolar, panic attacks, chronic introversion, avoidance, and extreme anxiety breakdowns (Hovenkamp- Hermelink et.al 2021). The article addresses childhood trauma causes abnormal neurodevelopment within the brain. When children remain in constant fear increases a child’s stress levels causing the brain to adapt to their current environment. The trauma can potentially lead to reduce brain development which plays a vital role in logical thinking, memory, cognitive, prefrontal cortex, limbic system, and corpus callosum. However, children learn to use resilience to gradually get past the traumatic experience enabling children to protect themselves from getting hurt (Msall, 2021). In conclusion, I built walls or shields as a survival tool to protect myself from getting hurt by not letting anyone break the walls down. I added the auditory system in the prenatal-infancy to connect Erikson’s theory to display a connection between my delayed development.

11 Reference Fargard, J., Essel, R., Jacque, L., O'Regan, K., & Somogyi, E. (2018). Fetal Origin of Sensorimotor Behavior. Frontiers in neurorobotics , 12 , 23. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2018.00023 Johanna H M Hovenkamp-Hermelink, Bertus F Jeronimus, Solomiia Myroniuk, Harriette Riese, Robert A Schoevers, Predictors of persistence of anxiety disorders across the lifespan : a systematic review, The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2021, Pages 428-443, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30433-8 . Michael E Msall, The effect of adverse childhood experiences on individuals with neuro disabilities, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology , (2021). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dmcn.14911 Mossler, R. A., & Ziegler, M. (2016). Understanding Development: A Lifespan Perspect ive. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc https://content.uagc.edu/books/Mossler.2582.16.1/sections/ch07sec7.4 Orenstein GA, Lewis L. Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development . [Updated 2022 Nov 7]. Stat Pearls Publishing; 2022 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556096/

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