Psychological Abuse
There’s no hard and fast definition of what qualifies as emotional abuse - Jenna Ryu
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7 Signs of Emotional Abuse That Aren’t So Obvious
In movies and TV shows, abusive relationships are typically characterized by physical violence or other blatant acts of aggression, like screaming or hurling insults. Those are common red flags, to be sure, but they’re not the only ones, and the warning signs aren’t always so obvious, particularly when it comes to emotional abuse. In fact, it’s pretty easy to miss subtly manipulative patterns like love bombing or insidious criticism, for example, which can quickly evolve into something more dangerous.
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'No Visible Bruises' Upends Stereotypes Of Abuse, Sheds Light On Domestic Violence
There are so many reasons that victims stay in violent and abusive relationships. Number one, domestic violence happens over a time period.
Confessions of an Abuser
Even before I read Olga Khazan’s account of a toxic relationship, I have recently been having some revelations and self-realizations about a relationship that have made me finally accept the role that I played as an emotional abuser.
How to recognize mental abuse, and why it's not your fault
Mental abuse can be severe. However, because this maltreatment can take on different patterns, it can also be easy to dismiss or overlook. The individual on the receiving end dismisses it. As a result, friends, co-workers, and family members often don’t recognize it either. If you’ve experienced mental abuse, there’s a chance you take on or minimize the blame for the humiliation, verbal abuse, and other ill-treatment you endured.
Is Emotional Abuse As Harmful as Physical and/or Sexual Abuse?
This study found that the participants who reported emotional abuse reported higher scores for depression, anxiety, stress, and neuroticism personality compared to the participants who reported only physical, only sexual, or combined physical and sexual abuse.
It's Not You, It's Them: Emotional Abuse and Ways to Cope
Emotional abuse is a way to control another person by using emotions to criticize, shame, blame, or otherwise manipulate another person. A relationship is emotionally abusive when there is a consistent pattern of abusive words and bullying behaviours that wear down a person's self-esteem and undermine their mental health.
It’s time to make emotional abuse a crime
Psychological violence is hard to define and hard to police. That’s exactly why those experiencing it need the law to be changed.
Psychological Abuse: More Common, as Harmful as Other Child Maltreatment
Psychological abuse — including demeaning, bullying and humiliating — may be the most prevalent form of child maltreatment. Yet it's among the hardest to identify or to treat.
Selena Gomez Opens Up About Experiencing Emotional Abuse in a New Interview
In a revealing new interview with NPR, Gomez spoke about suffering emotional abuse during the period of time when she was dating Justin Bieber. The exchange began with a discussion of her song “Lose You to Love Me,” which fans had assumed was about Bieber since its release; Gomez finally confirmed the inspiration behind it.
What You’re Saying When You Give Someone the Silent Treatment
Social ostracism has been a common punishment for millennia. But freezing someone out harms both the victim and the perpetrator.
When Is It Emotional Abuse?
Lest we make it a dumping ground for every negative emotional encounter, let's be clear on what is and is not emotional abuse.
With Coercive Control, the Abuse Is Psychological
Coercive control describes an ongoing and multipronged strategy, with tactics that include manipulation, humiliation, isolation, financial abuse, stalking, gaslighting and sometimes physical or sexual abuse.
7 Signs of Emotional Abuse That Aren’t So Obvious
It doesn’t have to be loud or violent to “count.”
Overcoming Emotional Abuse
I'm good because I survived abuse myself twice That gave me a life mission to identify and fight abusive relationships. I don't want to see more women of any age to be subjected to this medieval torture of domestic abuse!
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Psychological abuse involves the regular and deliberate use of a range of words and non-physical actions used with the purpose to manipulate, hurt, weaken or frighten a person mentally and emotionally; and/or distort, confuse or influence a person’s thoughts and actions within their everyday lives, changing their sense of self and harming their wellbeing.
