Psychological/ emotional
including anxiety, chronic depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Some examples of psychological abuse are:
- Gaslighting – manipulating you into doubting your own sanity or reality.
- Moving things around the house, or removing them and returning them later, then denying it.
- Denying that you or they said things.
- Telling you that people have said things about you, or that your friends don’t like you.
- Telling you that you have a mental health condition when you haven’t.
- Making derogatory jokes about you to others in front of you.
- Name calling, telling you you are useless, stupid, worthless and mad.
- Questioning you endlessly about everything you do or say.
Emotional abuse includes threats, insults, humiliation, intimidation, isolation or stalking.
Some examples of emotional abuse are:
- Calling you names and putting you down.
- Yelling and screaming at you.
- Intentionally embarrassing you in public.
- Preventing you from seeing or talking with friends and family.
- Telling you what to do and wear.
- Damaging your property when they’re angry (throwing objects, punching walls, kicking doors, etc.)
- Blaming your actions for their abusive or unhealthy behaviour.
- Threatening to commit suicide to keep you from breaking up with them.
- Threatening to harm you, your pet or people you care about.
- Making you feel guilty or immature when you don’t consent to sexual activity.
- Threatening to have your children taken away