emotional abuse?

Question

what are your opinions of what emotional abuse are??

janica janyne please elaborate??

omg purpleaura,i really hope that you were just giving a scenario and not talking about yourself!! If you were talking about self,my heart goes out to you,and if you ever need to talk you can contact me,take care,&best wishes!!

Answer 1

Belittling, manipulating, dismissing, verbally attacking someone.

Answer 2

Emotional abuse is any behavior that causes pain to another person's psyche. Verbal abuse is through words, physical abuse is pain to the body, emotional abuse goes with these, but it can be a separate entity, too. Emotional abuse can be a dirty look or "the silent treatment." My ex husband hugged me one time as if I were a big bag of flour that he had to carry. Ugh! He didn't say anything, it was not physically painful, but it really hurt. After a while you believe the abuser's BS - you're unlovable, not worth the powder to blast you to kingdom come. You believe nobody would want to help you because you're such a piece of work, so you stay until circumstances occur that save your life. It doesn't usually seem like it at the time, but it does turn out to be the best thing that ever happened.

Answer 3

It's when you live in fear of being embarrassed in public,ridiculed just to make you mad just so the person would have a reason to start punching you and beating you .until every time you see this person you get a knot in your stomach, and you become nervous sometimes to the point of Thinking of taking your life just to get away from this person. you don't know what will set them off so you try to do what you feel is the right thing just so it want start again, but the person wants to fuss and fight, sometimes you don't have to be doing anything just sitting minding your own business, and because you didn't ask why they came in at 2 o'clock in the morning, that makes them mad...and most time alcohol was involved.. them later on after you've gotten away from this person, every time you are in a situation where some one might be drinking and was not an abusive person, you would go into such a panic, Post traumatic Stress syndrome...and unless a person can come to gripes with and get some help , this will follow them in every relationship....if you ever have any again And the real torment is that he only acts like this to you, to everyone else he's an Angel, and he would tell you , "go and tell no one will ever believe you, then I'll have you put away and you'll never get to see your children again".......that's emotional abuse

Answer 4

I've been abused most of my life, I've never been a virgin. It took me a long time to understand that there is such a thing as verbal abuse. Now I know what feeling belongs to being abused. Abuse begins with thing abuse, like throwing things, punching a hole in the wall, etc. Verbal abuse is the next step. It's where the abuser says stuff that makes the victim feel like they are nothing, just nothing important at all. That no one could possibly love you as you are so worthless. The next step is physical abuse, sometimes culminating in killing the victim. The verbal abuse is what keeps most people in the relationship as they believe that no one else would put up with them, so they stay where they are. Most abused women never are able to get out.
may Peace be with you.

Answer 5

Emotional abuse is evoking an involuntary emotional response from another, like making a child frightened or sad or causing them to feel insecure.

On the other hand, emotional abuse can be used like a weapon, as in someone trying to manipulate another by crying or appearing to be afraid or through rage or anger.

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Answer 6

Emotional abuse is either -

1. Causing a person unwarranted emotional pain (either through word or deed).

or

2. Exploiting a person's emotions to accomplish one's own agenda.

Answer 7

Hurting someone emotionally to give yourself more control over them or the situation. I think that is the reason why most people emotionally abuse. It makes them feel like the bigger person by belittling the other person so they have they control

Answer 8

Emotional abuse can be caused by constantly putting someone down.

Answer 9

This link will help you:
http://www.lilaclane.com/relationships/emotional-abuse/links.html

Answer 10

Someone that attacks you as a person verbally. Puts you in awful situations. And, generally just tries to make your life a living hell. Their goal is to make you feel low.