Brainwashing
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Emotional Drama Is Not Love, But We Know the Formula for It
Emotional drama is not love. It is manufactured by the abuser during the initial attachment period using smoke and mirrors to disguise their true intentions. They want to place you under a love spell so you will never leave them, and science can tell you how they do it. What You Might Notice The abuser…
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How to Heal From Brainwashing
Regain Control of Your Mind Can you heal from brainwashing? Yes. Once you know you’ve experienced it, you can heal from brainwashing and recover from domestic abuse. First, learn how your abuser used brainwashing steps to bring you under control. Then learn self-mind-control to undo the brainwashing. It will take less time to recover than it took to become…
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Brainwashing and Intelligence Are Unrelated
Brainwashing and intelligence have nothing to do with one another. Unintelligent people can brainwash intelligent ones as easily as an intelligent abuser can brainwash a less intelligent person. The effects of verbal abuse or the effects of any type of abuse on your thinking is summed up in one word: BRAINWASHING. Brainwashing Doesn’t Require Intelligence Don’t for one second believe…
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The Brainwashing Technique: How Coercive Control Takes Hold
Learn How It’s Done So You Can Undo It “Brainwashing” is the plain-language term I’m using for a process more often discussed as coercive control and psychological aggression these days. The newer terminology doesn’t have the same “Dammit you’re going to believe and do as I say or else!” feeling abusers go for. Coercive control…
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How Crazymaking and Coercive Control Affect Your Brain and Thinking
Have you ever walked away from an argument with your partner thinking, I know what just happened. So why can’t I explain it anymore? Maybe you started the conversation knowing exactly what you meant. Twenty minutes later, you were defending something you never said, apologizing for something you didn’t do, or wondering whether your memory…
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Are You A Great Candidate for Brainwashing?
Brainwashing and Abuse in Relationships Brainwashing occurs in long-term abusive relationships but begins in the very beginning. I once pictured a brainwash-able person as a prisoner of war. Much later, I understood that brainwashing easily affects people just like me. I doubt my husband brainwashed me on purpose. He did not have the military’s training…
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Observing, Not Participating In, My Abuse
Therefore, I am finding that I am an emotional chameleon. I must learn to turn off my emotions and the thought train they trigger when I recognize abuse to protect myself and begin “observation mode”. This is not going to work for the long haul. I do not want to live my life connecting and…
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About Abuse
What Are Other Words for Abuse? You might hear abuse called many things: Who Is Abused? Abusers target any person (adult or child) regardless of age, race, religion, education level, IQ, economic background, culture, or community status. Who Gets It Worse, Men or Women? As a society, we tend to assume that abusers are men…
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Diverting My Attention: If I Think It’s ME I Won’t See It’s YOU
Diverting my attention from what he was doing by exploiting my vulnerabilities was par for the course. He expertly distracted me from emotional abuse, turning my suspicions that he was hurting me to the idea that I only hurt myself.
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Resisting Persuasion: AKA How to Verbally Abuse Someone
WHAT? I asked myself why “resisting persuasion” and “verbal abuse tactics” were one and the same. The only logical explanation that I can currently come up with is that he uses these tactics because he feels that I am trying to persuade HIM into thinking or doing something that he doesn’t want to do.