The phrase 'experience of abuse' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to a past incident or series of incidents involving a person being subjected to physical, mental, or emotional abuse. For example: "The victim recounted her experience of abuse at the hands of her abuser."
More than half of abused women had more than one experience of abuse.
In our extensive experience of working with abused women, we have found that they generally appreciate explaining their experience of abuse to professionals who have been trained to validate this experience.
Her own experience of abuse, she says, "is deeply interlinked in what motivates me.
MacLaine's challenging, devastating and devastatingly good piece, in which she speaks of her own experience of abuse, raises pertinent questions.
The lives of children and young people in custody are characterised by social inequality, educational failure, drug, alcohol and mental health problems, experience of abuse, bereavement and neglect.
I asked Muslim people in my own circle if they could recount just one experience of abuse, and the answer was quite often yes.
The five questions asked about the experience of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect.
These items did not assess multiple experiences of abuse, extent of abuse, or the number of different abusers, and therefore it may not reflect the true experience of client-perpetrated abuse for some of the FSWs in our study.
The abuse storyline prompted several people to contact you with their own experiences of abuse.
A collective sharing begins, tentatively, as women raise their own experiences of abuse — but it begins.
In the UK, female MPs have spoken out about their experiences of abuse.
