Warning Signs of Emotional Abuse

This was originally posted on Instagram on September 13, 2021.

Word for word from Psychology Today:

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What are the warning signs of emotional abuse?

Emotional abuse centers around control, manipulation, isolation, and demeaning or threatening behavior. Signs of abuse include:

• Monitoring and controlling a person’s behavior, such as who they spend time with or how they spend money. ✅

• Threatening a person’s safety, property, or loved ones✅

• Isolating a person from family, friends, and acquaintances✅

• Demeaning, shaming, or humiliating a person✅

• Extreme jealousy, accusations, and paranoia✅

• Delivering constant criticism✅

• Regular ridicule or teasing✅

• Making acceptance or care conditional on a person’s choices✅

• Refusing to allow a person to spend time alone (If you include incessant news coverage so we can’t be alone with our thoughts, then ✅)

• Thwarting a person’s professional or personal goals✅

• Instilling self-doubt and worthlessness✅

• Gaslighting: making a person question their competence and even their basic perceptual experiences.✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

(https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/emotional-abuse)
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You are not alone. You are not crazy. You are being abused by your government, your employer, and possibly even your clergy, family, and friends.

Know the warning signs.
Seek help.
And ask the Lord to deliver you and all of us from this madness.

EDITED TO ADD: not everyone who is abused knows they are being abused. Many simply turn around and pass it on to others. Almost all of the people who are hurting you are being hurt by others. That doesn’t *entirely* excuse their behavior but it’s an important perspective.