McCullough - Emotional Abuse: How to Stop Emotional Abuse From Ruining Your Life and A Powerful Program to Help You Recover From Emotional Abuse

Emotional Abuse

How to Stop Emotional Abuse from Ruining Your Life and A Powerful Program to Help You Recover from Emotional Abuse

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Chapter 3: Why does Emotional Abuse Happen?

Chapter 4: The Effects of Emotional Abuse and How to Heal them

Chapter 10: Building Your Self-esteem and Confidence

Introduction

W ith the books out there in the market, thank you for selecting and purchasing this one. I do hope that you will learn a lot from it.

Downloading this book will help you understand what people undergo or who have experienced emotional abuse, what goes on in their minds, and various situations. This can be a guide to those who have no idea what emotional abuse is, and you might be going through it but not being aware of it.

The book has instances in which emotional manipulation may occur and how the abuser can take advantage of your weakness and exploit it to their benefit. Some situations might shed light on your own experience and finally understand what is going on.

You will learn steps to help you know what emotional abuse is like. The steps in which you might be influenced by your abuser into putting more effort pleasing them and not yourself.

The information in the following chapters is important as you get to learn the steps to take to heal yourself. Some examples can help you understand better what is going on. You might know someone who is going through this, and this book might finally help you take the initiative to help them.

The book also discusses ways on how to change if you are an abuser and means to identify how you are oppressing your partner or co-worker.

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Chapter 1: What is Emotional Abuse?

W hat is emotional abuse ?

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he term emotional abuse is a term that is described in different relationships differently. Ideally, emotional abuse is the damage in a person's emotions which is influenced by various factors. There are non-physical behaviors that cause emotional abuse; these include insults, threats, excessive messaging, stalking, isolation, intimidation, humiliation, constant monitoring, and threats.

There are various behaviors that qualify to be emotional abuse, these are:

Yelling at someone

Calling someone abusive names

Embarrassing someone in public

Preventing someone from talking with family members

Ordering someone on what to wear

Intimidation, control, and humiliating someone using social networks

Stalking someone

Making threats to a partner if the partner dares to leave the relationship

Spreading rumors and threatening to take someone's child away

Threats to harm family members, pets, and friends

As we have seen, emotional abuse is high especially when the relationship between two individuals is affected by non-physical abuse or violence. Verbal abuse is the main cause of emotional damage because it is the first trigger that can lead to physical violence. The worst thing about emotional abuse is the fact that some threats or words can be repeated so many times that it becomes a reality. One starts to believe that she is not beautiful, that he is not handsome, and that he/she is fat, ugly, and not dateable. The extreme bit is the lack of confidence and low self-esteem that crops up, and self-blame starts to beat someone down.

Emotional abuse is a social problem that has a catastrophic impact. There is a growing concern on defining what it is, confronting it, and providing remedies to some of the effects that it causes. In the fields of education, medicine, social science, and law, this aspect is being looked into, because these fields which require a strong mind and individuals who are strong in their confidence to impact the society, and a counter measure of this abuse has to be readily available to individuals.

Emotional abuse is a different form of violence in all kinds of relationships. It is often characterized by behavior patterns that cause injury to parties that are usually innocent and not deserving of the treatment. Emotional abuse happens in families, health, industry, religious places, non-quasi-religious places, and in corporations. When you are looking into emotional abuse, always know that the victim's state is fully understood.

Let us look at emotional abuse in two classes of people

a) A child

b) An adult

A child

Ideally, the emotional abuse of a child is described as inflicting emotional or mental injury into a child, which leads to the impairing of a childs development, physiological functioning, and growth.

An adult

When we get to the adult, we describe emotional abuse as inflicting anguish, mental pain, and distress via non-physical or physical actions that include isolation, terrorism, exploitation, humiliation, corruption, stalking, and even dishing out threats.

Emotional abuse can also come in the form of an attitude which ends up to become a behavior. The abusive attitude does not have to be intended by the abuser. It can be a reckless action which can still cause damage.

Aspects of an emotionally abusive relationship

Humiliation - This is whereby, a child or an adult feels bad about himself. A child or an adult can be compelled to believe that he/she is worthless, and he/she cannot be valued by anyone. To achieve this kind of abuse, shaming, screaming, and name-calling, are some of the catalysts that erode someone's self-esteem.

Dominance - This is the aspect where a person obeys without question, and one becomes anothers slave. One is treated as an object. An adult is treated like a young child, and a child is treated like an incompetent good for nothing kid.

Isolation - This happens when a child or adult is separated from interacting with the world in any way. It can involve keeping the individual away from the family members, friends, or even attending school or work.

Intimidation - These are gestures that include smashing objects at someone's face, destroying one's property, laying down weapons to command authority, and even hurting pets to make a point.

Threats - Victims are confronted with threats from abusers for them to stay where they are. Abusers may threaten to harm the victims pets, their family members, threaten to commit suicide, and even file charges against the victims of crimes they have not even committed.

It is important to point out that different states define emotional abuse in a different light because the abuse depends on where the location is. There have been studies that show that emotional abuse cases depend on the location where the abuse has occurred. Since there is no clear standard for defining emotional abuse, it is possible for some abusers to escape criminal charges in some states or countries. The confusion about what is regarded as emotional abuse in a country or state is what is followed to implicate someone on such a charge. There are places where emotional abuse is viewed according to the resulting damage that occurs. The problem with this approach is that it fails to provide a preventive measure on how to avoid this kind of abuse from happening.