What is the criteria for mental abuse?

Question

I was wondering what the 'definition' is of mental abuse. What things must occur in order for mental abuse to have taken place? I am looking for specific things, I have a general idea of what mental abuse is, like putting you down and making you feel like dirt. Does mental abuse have anything to do with 'turning someone against another person'. I am just not sure where that plays in to mental abuse. Like alienating a parent against a child or vice versa, is that mental abuse or just Parental Alienation Syndrom?

Answer 1

Mental abuse occurs when an individual constantly makes statements to demean you as a person or does things to make you feel bad when you don't deserve it. The intention is to lessen your self worth and to take control of your thoughts and mind so that you are seeing yourself from the perspective that they are trying to force on you. For example, if you have body issues, they constantly say to you that you are a fat useless pig of a human being. If you have employment issues, they could say something like, no one would hire you, you're an idiot, or you'll be losing that job soon, you're too stupid to keep it. Mental abuse is simply a way to get inside your head and to stay there, in a very intentional, manipulative and negative manner.

Answer 2

The basis for mental abuse is control by whatever means necessary and yes trying to turn a child against a parent is a form of mental abuse if it is based on controlling you

Answer 3

When I filed for my divorce my lawyer said I was the worse case of mental abuse by a spouse he had ever defended. What my lawyer referred to was not so much the verbal abuse but the neglect and controlling aspect. I was not allowed to work outside the home, nor was I on the checking and savings accounts. I had no idea what the household expenses were, he made out the bills and wrote the checks and put them in envelopes for me to mail out on specified days of the month. I didn't know what he made, income wise, by the hour, bi-weekly, or yearly. He always filed our taxes jointly but when I had to sign the form or the checks he covered up everything but where my signature went. My name was on the deed to the house as well as the camp property but I was not allowed at the meetings only the signing. When a vehicle was bought he left in the old and came back in the new. We always did the shopping together but on the rare occassion when I had to go by myself he always gave me a signed check, everything filled out except for the amount, and I gave him the receipt when I returned home. When he called home from work I was expected to answer the phone, if I was in the shower or out side working in the garden or yard I had to carry the phone with me and hope to hear it ring. He was not a physically abusive person, he was just loud, and he loved to yell instead of talk. He provided well for the family, we never went without, I had name brand clothes, new furniture and appliances, a new car every 3 or 4 years, went on vacations and every anniversary he bought me a porcelain flower, very expensive. I have 20 of them. When I caught him cheating with a younger girl I divorced him.

Answer 4

structural ache contains recommendations. additionally whilst it is not intentional despite the fact that it is structural besides, so particular, alianating toddler from determine or vice versa is psychological abuse whilst it places toddler in ache. it isn't the comparable for each toddler or person. no longer on a similar time as youthful and not whilst grown older. some human beings are very resilliant and don't label something abuse whilst yet another could actual.And the two are suitable in what they journey. that's what makes the question maximum complicated. it is an extremely very own journey whilst it contains abuse. the fact that it contains the way you sense as a sufferer makes it enormously much impossible to furnish it an instantaneous definition.

Answer 5

Abuse occurs when people mistreat or misuse other people, showing no concern for their integrity or innate worth as individuals, and in a manner that degrades their well being. Abusers frequently are interested in controlling their victims. They use abusive behaviors to manipulate their victims into submission or compliance with their will.


Abusers control and compel their victims in a variety of ways. They may verbally abuse them by calling them names, tell them they are stupid, have no worth or will not amount to anything on their own. They may become physically violent, inflicting pain, bruises, broken bones and other physical wounds (visible and hidden both). They may rape or sexually assault their victims. Alternatively they may neglect dependent victims, disavowing any responsibilities they may have towards those victims, and causing damage through lack of action rather than through a harmful, manipulative action itself.

Answer 6

yes I think when one parent talks about the other parent to the child it is mental abuse to the child.

Answer 7

people calling you names like stupid,ugly,lazy things that put you down.

if your always told that its your fault is also a major put down.

so when you mentally abused then you dont believe in your self anymore and you think you are what they call you which is really bad.

Answer 8

"Emotional abuse or psychological abuse: coercion, humiliation, intimidation, relational aggression, parental alienation or covert incest: Where one person uses emotional or psychological coercion to compel another to do something they do not want, or is not in their best interests; or when one person manipulates another's emotional or psychological state for their own ends (see battered person syndrome), or commits psychological aggression using ostensibly non-violent methods to inflict mental or emotional violence or pain on another. " ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse

Answer 9

Hitting, bullying