Signs of emotional abuse and how to deal with it

The people we love and spend most of the time can significantly impact our state of mind. Your nature and personality depend upon which kinds of people you are surrounded with.

If you are going through situations of stress, overwhelming, and depression, then it might be possible that abusive and harmful people surround you.

Mental and emotional abuses include non-physical behavior by your partner and friend, using verbal comments and subtle actions to put down your personality and character.

In simple; emotional abuse is form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to behavior that may result in psychological trauma . An emotional abuser’s primary purpose is to control and manipulate the other person’s mind negatively by using any necessary means.

Emotional abuse is not limited to your partner but can be penetrated through your friend, family member, co-worker, and generally, someone you interact with regularly.

Here are the signs of emotional abuse, which will help you to figure out whether you are going through this unbearable situation or not.

Signs of emotional abuse:  

there are numerous signs of emotional abuse but lets look at the few below

They invade your privacy and ignore boundaries:

An abuser will forget their limit and disgrace you in front of people by sharing personal things and invading privacy. We all have the right to our own space. Emotional abuser degrade you in front of the public and argue with you on little things that will make you feel down and anxious about yourself.

Manipulate you to self isolation:

The main goal of an emotional abuser is to isolate yourself from other people. To achieve this, they will go to lengths and try to restrict your behavior through unreasonable jealousy. They may make you feel guilty for their shortcomings and problems.

They always make you look feel negative about yourself:

An emotional abuser’s main motive is to humiliate you through any means. They do not care about your feelings, achievements, happiness, and thoughts. And they make you feel insignificant regardless of what your problems and complaints are.

They treat you like an object and thus disputing your feelings:

The main thing why they need you instead of integrating you is that they want to play with you. Emotional abusers objectify you in many ways. They joke about your problems, invade your privacy and embarrass you in front of people.

How to deal with emotional abuse:

Stand up to the abuser:

Emotional abuser don’t like to be challenged and the abuser may back down when you stand up to him

know your right and stop blaming yourself:

when you know your right as an individual it becomes difficult to be emotionally abused.

Disengage and set personal boundaries: cut all ties with the abuser and do not look back

Reach out for support: confide in friends and family and ask for their support on how you can free yourself from the abuser.