what is mental abuse in your own words?

Question

i had a bf that mentally abused me for 2 years.

Answer 1

Mental abuse, I think, is when someone puts you down all the time, tells you that you are worthless, calls you names, and just generally makes you feel terrible. Your self esteem goes south and it is hard to ever trust anyone anymore. I am sorry you had to go thru all of that. Glad you are out of the relationship and I hope someone will love you and treat you right in the future.

Answer 2

Mental abuse is physcological abuse..which can be as bad as physical abuse and 9 times out of 10 It will turn to that anyway.Words can break you heart,alter your thinking and slowly damage your soul.I bet you have or had very low self-esteem! No one deserves to be put down,belittled,called names and treated like they were less than human! I hope you had the good sense to get away from him and stay away.Most men like him think it makes them a big man to talk down to a woman especially.So please don't become another statistic,get as far from him as you can and pretend you never knew him. He doesn't deserve you let alone any other woman..so face your loss which you should be celebrating a new free life without tyranny.You'd be a lot happier!
So you go girl! enjoy life while you can!

Answer 3

when someone puts you down, or scares you, or makes fun of you in private or public, bellitles you, terrorizing you.
i'm glad u wrote the word HAD not HAVE, and i'm glad u left the looser who mental abused u.

sometimes, mental abuse is not recognized, because most think of physical abuse when they think of abuse.

Answer 4

I totally agree with Karin,you can well do without tha B......goood luck to you and be very careful when choosing your next partner.