It is 2/11/14, and I've allowed these circumstances to rule my emotions. NO MORE...
I get sucked into it more common than I thought...
Perpetrators of emotional/psychological abuse often consciously employ a strategy called, “gaslighting” in which they present an alternate reality to their victims, police, therapists and judges.
Gaslighting involves denying what occurred, offering plausible but untrue accounts of what occurred, or suggesting the victim is imagining things, exaggerating or lying.
Gaslighting strategies leave victims doubting their own perceptions, memory or sanity and serve to confuse police, judges and therapists into inaction or worse, supporting the abuser, while leaving the victims feeling helpless and alone against the abuse.
...I recognize it now and know it is definitely not me!!
Monopolization of perceptions is often part of the abuser’s brainwashing-like tactics whereas the victim believes what he/she says is true and that they’re perceptions, opinions or ideas are mistaken or unworthy.
Constant criticism, demeaning behaviors, threats, withholding affection or threatening abandonment for non-compliance with abuser’s demands and personal humiliation are further consistent, on-going tactics of the emotional/psychological abuser....
The continuous and unrelenting pattern of emotional abuse is often interspersed with warmth and kindness to create an “in and out” of bonding , “crazy making” experience.
Do they think this is LOVE????
Fear, isolation, withdrawal, feelings of abandonment and helplessness, overly compliant/submissive behavior, self-blaming, and humiliation are common responses. T?
NOT ANYMORE...
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