What is the difference between Mental Emotional and Verbal Abuse?

Answer 1

Verbal abuse is what is said to down a person or make another person feel not right or low (name calling)...mental: reliving abuse over and over in your thoughts. emotional: deals with abuse and your emotions (suppress or not let out appropriate feelings)...
I would look up some websites...

Answer 2

If you are the person on the receiving end of the abuse... there is no difference. Obviously, verbal abuse means abuse through words, instead of being beaten physically. Abuse of any kind affects us mentally and emotionally. It is a horrible thing to be verbally abused. The words can be just as (if not more so) damaging as a blow to the face, with a fist. Bottom line, abuse of any kind, from or to someone you love, is wrong and needs to stop. I hope that you are writing a term paper or something... and not asking because you are in this situation now. If you are being abused... save your self -- no one can do that but you. I wish you the best... from somebody that knows. You are not alone, and you can have a better life.

Answer 3

Some would argue that to identify abuse for what it is smacks of reverse-victimization. Too many believe that physical abuse is the only type of abuse that matters.


Some would argue that to name anything other than physical abuse as abusive is just being too sensitive or dramatic. For many of these same opinion-holders anything short of what you can actually see that is of a physical nature can't be abuse.They do not believe that abuse can be verbal, emotional, psychological, sexual, financial, racial, homophobic, mental, systemic, organizational, institutional, and other various forms that can be less overt and much more subtle than physical abuse.

Are they in denial? Do they just not understand? How could it be that those of us who know all-too-well what abuse is even have to contemplate defending its reality?

The truth is that there are still more people who do not understand how to identify non-physical abuse then those who do know how. Many people continue to believe that for something to be abusive it has to be of a physical nature.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Abuse comes in many types and forms and is delivered by people of all sizes, shapes, races, socio-economic status, regardless of sexual orientation, educational background, age, or gender.

Much of what is actually abuse can be quite subtle and for the person being abused is not always readily identifiable. Far too many people have, frankly, grown accustomed to being abused.

When anyone believes the many myths and rationalizations for certain types of abuse - or excuse some forms of abuse by minimizing them as someone just being rude, making a mistake, even trying to help (in the case of coercing and controlling emotional abuse that is often disguised as concern), or as the victim of the abuse just being "hysterical", or "too sensitive" there becomes a very real need then to defend what the many forms and types of abuse are.

The cries of those who are abusive that they are the victims of some seemingly grossly misunderstood reverse-victimization are outrageous and egregious to the actual and very real victims of all kinds of abuse. Abuse that continues to proliferate in our societies at an ever-increasing and alarming rate.

There is a need to defend the identification and reality of the many varied ways in which abuse is perpetrated against all-too-many people day in and day out and excused away by unjust and unsound mythical rationalizations born out of the false-sense of entitlement of those who should know way better.

Answer 4

From who's point of view?
If your the one getting abused, It's all pretty hard.
Abuse has many forms. But all end up the same.
It hurts.