Abuse is not only physical, it can also be emotional, mental and verbal. However, while physical violence is evident, other types of abuse remain hidden and are difficult to disclose, even for the same person who sadly suffers them.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousTHEabuse it is not only physical, it can also be emotional, mental and verbal. However, while physical violence is evident, other types of abuse remain hidden and are difficult to disclose, even for the same person who sadly suffers them.
Some people think they have the right to exploit it handling of others to your liking, to obtain advantages for themselves. With their behavior, unfortunately, in the long run they cause sorrow and inflict suffering.
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Here are some of them manipulation techniques related to emotional abuse that we should beware of and that make us understand that it is a dangerous game.
Index
Destructive criticism
La destructive criticism it occurs when a subject tends to destroy the other with excessive tones and by passing evidently false statements as truth. Destructive criticism serves to humiliate the other and in itself usually does not contain anything true. Those who belittle others in this way often just try to make themselves shine but sooner or later the trick will be discovered.
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Silence
Even silence can become one emotional abuse tactics and manipulation. We think we have to receive an important answer from a person and here we are faced with a wall of silence with any means of communication we try to contact them. Silence causes insecurity, anxiety and a decline in self-esteem in those who suffer it.
Projection
In emotional abuse, a person may project their insecurities, fears and problems onto their 'victim'. For example he will tend to blame the other to lie or to be unfaithful when instead it is the person himself who hides the truth or who betrays. This can create great confusion and lead those who are emotionally abused to self-doubt.
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Victimism
Victimization is a form of emotional abuse that serves to draw the attention of others to oneself with the aim of finally feeling important. Those who present themselves as victims tend to shift their responsibilities onto others and could even accuse them of having acted wrongly when instead they should take all the blame on themselves.
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Indirect threats
We should do a lot beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, that is to those people who in their apparently calm and mellifluous speeches hide accusations and threats towards the interlocutors or towards other people who at that moment consider uncomfortable and to be belittled. Better to recognize those who behave this way and stay away from them.
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Have you ever been victims of emotional abuse and manipulation?
Marta Albè
