Anonymous asked:

What is emotional abuse? Like what is classified as being emotionally abusive?

whoneedssexed answered:

Emotional abuse is abuse that targets a person’s emotional health.

Some forms of emotional abuse include:

  • Gaslighting and invalidation of feelings, experiences, abilities, etc
  • Guilt tripping
  • Public humiliation
  • Isolating from friends and family
  • Victim blaming
  • Constant criticism
  • Certain forms of negative reinforcement, such as neglect or threatening abandonment, to control behaviour
  • Refusing to allow privacy or personal space, monitoring and controlling forms of communication and self expression, including destroying these things
  • Destruction of significantly personal items

Love Is Respect has this page about different forms of abuse.

This article describes 30 common emotionally abusive behaviours or actions.

This article details emotional abuse, how to recognize it and how to handle it.

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side effects of being numb due to mental illness:

adorkableberry:

  1. not crying for weeks and weeks on end til one day breaking down over something not actually worth getting upset for
  2. not being able to tell if your feelings for people are platonic or romantic or if you’re just lonely 
  3. instead of caring too much not caring at all about anything 
  4. not being able to process anything going on in your life and when you try your brain stalling out
  5. losing your train of thought every five seconds so when you try to have a conversation having to pause and remember what you were trying to say 
  6. word vomiting 
  7. mind ‘STATIC’