is mental abuse just as bad as physical abuse?

Answer 1

Mental abuse is worse than physical abuse. You think that you have gathered the strength to stand up to it, when you find out the abuser has been telling your friends things that aren't true, for the purpose of turning them against you. You then have to try and explain the situation, which doesn't always result in your friend still being your friend, which is a painful thing to deal with. those scars are harder to heal.
With physical abuse, there are visual signs, which aren't open to interpretation.

Answer 2

No, mental abuse is worse than physical abuse. Although, if she or he hurts you physically, you can always run away from that and start a better life. With mental abuse, the person that was abused mentally is always plagued by the words the abuser said. If you are in a good relationship but you mentally fear your other half in the realtionship, leave now and try to get some help for the abuse you have recieved. The longer you stay in a mentally painful relationship the harder it will be to leave and move on with your life.

Answer 3

Yes. It can also be worse. I know physical abuse can lead to death but so can mental, eg. a mentally abused person may commit suicide or kill the abuser. Also, it is easier to prove physical abuse and get help. If you are mentally abused, it could be completely hiddedn and only have your word against the abuser. If someone hits you, the pain will go eventually but mental abuse can stay with you forever.

Answer 4

In my opinion mental is worse than physical. Mental cannot always be seen, but always lasts longest. The physical abuse causes the mental, but it is the mental that remains, the bruises may heal and you may seem perfectly alright but this may be a long way from the truth.

If someone is physically abused people feel sorry for them and try to help. with mental they cannot see the damage, just the fault and quite often add to the problem via there lack of understanding.

Mental abuse is more difficult to understand, less recognised and therefore, at the moment, worse.

Answer 5

Yes it is. There are many types of abuse: Mental, Emotional, Economical, Verbal, Physical, Sexual & Spiritual. I would say that Mental and Verbal abuse are the worst in an abusive relationship. These are the most harsh types of abuse because it scars a person in the insidefor the rest of their lives. This type of abuse also hurts people to the point low self-esteem, suicide, depression and child abuse. Yes, sticks and stones may break your bones but words really DO hurt you. And there is no excuse for abuse and it it NEVER the victim's fault!

Answer 6

Mental abuse is still very undefined. There is a lot of mental abuse which is shown on tv for entertainment. The severity of mental abuse is also undefined. The book which is called, a boy named "It" is an extreme case of mental abuse, and I would say it would be as bad as mental abuse. People are starting to learn how to deal with mental abuse correctly. But most people are tauhgt to shrugg it off, but the problem with shrugging it off, is the mental abuse just builds up and eventually the effects of the mental abuse are visible. Also, physical abuse is mental abuse! I say when there is not any kind of defense against the mental abuse, it is as bad as physical abuse.

Answer 7

Mental abuse is worse then physical abuse. The reason being is that the person that is mentally abused remembers it a lot more then some one who is abused physically.

Answer 8

Mental abuse is harder to prove. It has different psychological affects on the person. Mental abuse can be in the form of verbal abuse, humiliation, always degrading a person in front of others, Mental abusers are person who were mentally abuse as a child and have carried it over into adulthood. Mental abuse can cause the other person to have low self-esteem and little self worth.

Answer 9

I actually have never used torture, nor am I in the armed forces. although i'm guessing that someone is broken down mentally, even at the same time as being bodily abused in an interncamp/being a POW. extremely frequently, merely the probability of violence may reason someone to react/implode/panic. and that is psychological abuse, no? a lot of human beings were kept in camps with out being tortured first, and they did so because they were mentally conditioned. also, there replaced into an try performed (the call of the scientist isn't coming to thoughts) the position anytime the 'lab head' would tap the guy on the shoulder, the guy replaced into meant to grant an electric powered wonder to the sufferer in the subsequent room (the 'sufferer replaced into actually appearing out being stunned, each and anytime better violently because the pretend shocks were 'higher'). The try proved to proceed until eventually the point of 'death'. it really is psychological. yet to bodily abuse someone - i think one could be mentally dearranged.

Answer 10

Yes in my opinion, I suffered years of physical abuse at the hands of my bullying ex husband, then he started with the mental abuse, and after suffering the head stuff as well as the beatings I got away from him, and eventually divorced him. I met my present husband 5years later and after being with him for 6 years we married. He asked me again and again. Do you know what he is the best thing that as ever happened in my life, I adore him I am completely safe with him. I tell my self I had to learn my lesson the hard way to value every minute of every day with my second husband, dont stay in the mental torture enviroment any longer than you have to get out...... good luck

Answer 11

Yes!! And sometimes worse. Mentally abusing people can cause them to have mental disorders, depression, anxiety, etc. In some cases it can lead the abused to suicide. Any form of abuse is bad and unacceptable.