About Relationship Abuse
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Undermining Is Verbal Abuse
How Does Undermining Work? Undermining kind of works as it sounds. Let’s say you’re digging a mine. It is a super-great mine! Your abusive partner begins digging a mine deeper than yours, directly under yours, without you knowing it. You come home from digging your mine one day and excitedly tell your partner about how…
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Threatening Behavior And Words
What Are Threatening Words and Behavior? As you can guess, threatening words and behavior imply or involve emotional pain, physical pain, or both. If your partner threatens to leave if you do or don’t do something, that is a threat. Threats are verbal and emotional abuse. Some things you could hear are, “If you go out…
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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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PTSD from Domestic Abuse
PTSD Affects 10 Percent of Domestic Abuse Survivors Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from domestic abuse affects a great number of abused and previously abused women. Women, in general, develop PTSD from domestic abuse more often than men in part because … women are more likely to experience trauma within established relationships or their traumatic exposures are more chronic than…
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Verbal Abuse Books That Teach the Vocabulary of Abuse
Verbal abuse books helped me discover that my marriage problems were rooted in verbal and emotional abuse. I felt relief because up until I read the library of verbal abuse books available, I thought that I was losing my mind. My abusive husband had almost convinced me that every problem in our marriage was my…
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My Abusive Marriage . . . and what i’m doing in it
For eighteen years I could not explain my marriage to anyone, including myself. In front of other people he was charming, and I was the one who seemed difficult. I did not start writing to prove anything. I started writing so I would know what was true, because his version of an argument kept replacing…
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Choosing to Stay in an Abusive Relationship
Staying Is a Choice You Can Make Choosing to stay in an abusive relationship is something you might need to do for now or forever. But when you stay, you may not find much support. Your abuser may have already cut you off from family and friends. The people who are still around want to…
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Is PTSD from Abuse Affecting You?
About 6 out of every 100 people, 6% of the United States population, will have PTSD at some point in their lives.1 PTSD resulting from domestic abuse is diagnosed in about 10% of domestic violence victims. Why so many? Domestic abuse is a trauma enacted by someone you’re told you can trust (the family unit…
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Depression Symptoms Show the Effects of Domestic Abuse
Depression symptoms and the effects of domestic abuse are eerily similar. Domestic abuse causes unhealthy thinking habits. Then the thinking habits become depression symptoms. Let’s explore several symptoms of depression followed by thoughts on how domestic abuse influences or causes those depression symptoms. It’s important to talk to your doctor about depression if any of the…