Ever been called crazy? That's a sign of emotional abuse.
It's normal to second-guess your memory every now and again. After all, recollections can be fuzzy . But if you're in a relationship that makes you constantly doubt yourself, you may be a victim ofGaslighters lie and manipulate you to distort your sense of reality.
One surefire way to tell you’re dealing with a gaslighter is if they deny facts you bothknow are true. “They'll blatantly tell you that they never said something—or never did something—even if you were there to witness it,” says Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, an author and psychotherapist in Tampa, Florida. The goal is to make you question you perception of what happened. You might think to yourself,I just thought I did.
Or they might involve the people you trust the most, warns Sarkis. “A gaslighter might even go to your mom to avoid direct confrontation, stir things up, and bad-mouth you, so that [your mom] can be the one to suggest that you do something about your mental state."Another classic gaslighter technique is stop communicating altogether after you voice a concern. “Instead of talking out issues in a healthy way, what gaslighters do is they’ll completely block you out," says Sarkis.
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