There’s a big difference between tolerating your best friend’s bad advice and accepting the psychiatric services of a random guy in Chicago. Unfortunately, unlicensed mental health providers can slip through the cracks and wreak havoc on a person’s psyche. These three true-life stories showcase how important it is to check…
Verbal and emotional abuse are often used interchangeably, but while they might overlap, they are two different forms of abuse with distinct characteristics. Verbal abusers use language to hurt another person; this might involve speaking aggressively or violently, or it could mean not saying a single word. A few common…
Gaslighting is both a form of emotional and mental abuse that plagues our society in all different levels and degree. This form of manipulation is emotional abuse in that it causes the victim to experience increasingly harmful emotions like fear, severe sadness, and panic. Gaslighting is also a form of…
Gaslighting is a form of manipulation and abuse used to gain control over one’s victim. It’s often difficult to spot gaslighting, as these manipulators make their victims question their own sanity. Gaslighters are domineering but work to present themselves as kind, generous, intelligent, and trustworthy. These manipulators use subtlety to…