Does Sexual Abuse Play a Causative Role in Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in Childhood? A Help Screaming from Internet
Stefan
Bittmann*, Elisabeth Luchter, Gloria
Villalon
Department of
Pediatrics, Medical and Finance Center Epe, Gronau, Germany
*Corresponding author: Stefan Bittmann, Head of Ped Mind
Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Medical and Finance Center Epe, Hindenbrugring 4, D-48599
Gronau, Germany. Fax: +49256597324; Email: stefanbittmann@gmx.de
Received Date: 24 September, 2018; Accepted Date: 27 September, 2018; Published Date: 09 October, 2018
Citation: Bittman S, Luchter E, Villalon G (2018) Does Sexual Abuse Play a Causative Role in Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in Childhood? A Help Screaming from Internet. J Perina Clin Pediatr: JPCP-104. DOI: 10.29011/ JPCP-104. 100004
Commentary
In April and July
2018 two internet emails reached my person from a 59 years old women from
Alabama, USA, and 3 months later from a 67 years old women from England
independently. I was very surprised, as an author of AIWS in children, to read
the impressions of these two older women in childhood. Both described sexual
abuse in childhood: one with 6-8 years of life, the other one in the years
5-11. Both, independently, described horrific experience with Alice in Wonderland
seizures in this period of her childhood. After self-reflection of themselves
many years later, they contacted a doctor in the internet to inform about that.
Seizures and sexual abuse stood in close chronological relation.
Sexual abuse in
relation to Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in children was not mentioned or
published yet in world literature. The personal experience of these two women
reveal a new curious aspect of finding the real origin of Alice in Wonderland
Syndrome in children.
Further patients
with similar experiences in childhood should be found and analyzed in this way.