What exactly happens in emotional abuse?

Question

How can someone recognize it and how do you handle with it.

Answer 1

You get starved for affection.
Provisos are placed on how you make love.
You are humiliated and denigrated at every turn.
They need to know where you are every minute of the day but do not return the courtesy.

(There are more, but this si a start)

Answer 2

Yes you recognize emotional abuse if it's happening to you. Sometime other people never know that a person is being abused. People who are being abused hide from the world. The only way out of it is to leave or get help together. But it takes the person that is getting abused to make the first move.

Answer 3

Emotional abuse is a very subtle thing. It can start out with comments like "You really look fat in that dress', or "Did you use a lawn mower on your hair?" It is usually said with a smile on their faces, so you dont know if you should take it seriously or not. It can be spaced with some loving comments, so you really dont know if you're coming or going.
Over a period of time, the loving things become few and far between and the mean things multiply. If someone says rude or cruel things to you on a daily basis, that's emotional abuse and all of the loving things really need to be weighed against how much the cruel things hurt. You never deserve to be hurt, emotionally or physically. No relationship is worth that.

Answer 4

I think emotional abuse when someone manipulates your thinking. They can persuade you to think differently about things. It's also when a person puts you down. For instance they might say you're fat and ugly and no one else will want you. They might also call you stupid, incompetent, etc.

Emotional abuse is any abuse that is verbal. The abuse makes you cry and have low self esteeem.

The best thing to do if you are experienceing emotional/verbal abuse is to stay away from the person who is doing it you. don't have any contact with that person

Good luck

Answer 5

I put up with this for 6 years and thankfully i'm out of it now. Some of the things i experienced were-
Not allowing me to have friends
Not allowing me to speak or see my parents
Going in moods if my attention wasn't 100% on him
Refusing to have sex with me for 5 years (honestly)
Humiliating me
Bringing me down infront of others
Making me feel stupid and worthless
Making me feel ugly/fat etc
Not allowing me to speak in public
Being insanely jealous if a barMAN served me
Upsetting me whenever i was happy
Depriving me of sleep
Being aggresive towards me
Having mood swings for no reason
Talking aggresively to himself
Threatening to commit suicide
Going away for a night and switching his phone off
Calling me constantly when i was at the supermarket
Taking money from me so i had no independence
Constantly questioning me as to where i was, what i was doing
Lying all the time to me
Acting nice infront of his mates towards me, then when they went away being very nasty to me
Drinking then coming home verbally abusing me

The list really is endless. Please for anyone reading this if you are experiencing these things like i did, get out as soon as you can. It won't get any better. I had a terrible time for 6 years non-stop but i managed to get away. Was the hardest thing i've ever done, but in the end i'm re-building my life now and am so much happier. Get help from other people too - tell people what you're going through. xx

Answer 6

i think emotional abuse, could be many things. But all of them, done by someone you trust and usually love. The outcome is painful to you, lowering self-esteem. which gives the abuser all the more power over your overall emotional well being.

once the cycle has begun, its time to run. as time goes on, it will be harder for you to find the strength to get away.

Seek counseling, either for the both of you, or more importantly, for yourself if this has been going on long enough to have any doubts about your right to be respected, and loved unconditionally.

good luck!

Answer 7

Emotional abuse usually always accompanies physical abuse. Often, emotional abuse will escalate just prior to physical battering. But emotional abuse happens with or without physical abuse. Because it does not leave scars or bruises, it is a less obvious form of abuse, but its effects can be devastating for victims.

Emotional abuse can be difficult for victims to identify. If a victim grew up in a violent or emotionally unhealthy home, he or she may have difficulty distinguishing between what is normal relationship conflict and what is emotional abuse. Abusers use a wide-range of behaviors to emotionally control and belittle their victims, including name-calling, blaming, threatening, manipulating, withholding approval, and making hostile or mean-spirited jokes.

Like victims of physical and sexual abuse, victims of emotional abuse need help and support.

Answer 8

not too sure it can be defined in one sentence. best to look in the dictionary for that. but emotional abuse involves a lot of different things. i think you have to look at you current relationships and really examine how they make you feel. are you uspet all the time, fighting, emotionally drained? well if you answered yes to any of the above it is possible you are being emotionally abused. i've always looked at relatoinships in that you have to out weigh the good with the bad. even make it list if will make it easier. and really look at how you are being treated.

Answer 9

Your emotionally screwed up and this can be such a wide area, so help is needed. it's alright giving the help and support which with luck is all that it will take to help but sometimes it can run so deep that more professional help is needed..we all have emotional problems but all depends on how we cope with them, abuse runs deeper and it's good that someone is on hand to help and give the support needed,from you or others. do help but be strong and true to your self and stick with routine, don't feel and say one thing one day and another thing a day later as this could make matters worse , and know your limits on what support you can give. good luck....

Answer 10

Emotional abuse is different for each person. I may be strong in one area of my emotions but weak in another......if your weaker emotion is picked on over and over and never seems to get strong it's more than likely getting abused.

Answer 11

no matter what is said or done the abuser will always make out they are right until it cracks your head so much you Carnot take anymore of this person controlling and putting you down . emotional abusers are loving and caring one minute then the next are as nasty the next