Quotes About Emotional abuse

I hate it when a guy knows you like him, and he abuses the privilege.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

My mother was a narcissist who'd never wanted me and didn't even particularly like, let alone love, me.

There were other ways of battering women too, ways that did not involve physical violence, and Kate sometimes thought that the mental battering was worse.

One man got so mean and nasty whenever he couldn't play with Maureen's titties that he soiled himself on purpose so she would have to clean his butt and the rest of his private parts. Each time she had to do that, he displayed an erection that would put a horny frat boy to shame.

In my opinion, an interesting switch had taken place. Boetie had been a passive victim of emotional, sexual and physical abuse as a child. As an adult he identified with the aggressor and did to others what had been done to him. When he was imprisoned he could no longer vent his anger and suffering and reverted back to the role of the passive victim, allocating the role of active persecutors to his victims.

My grandmother accused me of hurting my mother. Other relatives accused me of being an ungrateful child. Mom said I was mean and cruel and had hurt her deeply. Still impressionable and my spirits tottering under the load of the pain from the past, I accepted the notion that I was that selfish and ungrateful daughter, careless of my mother's feelings.

Emotional abuse is the cruelest and longest lasting of all." He goes on to say, "When your self-concept has been shredded, when you have been deeply injured and made to feel that the injury was all your fault, when you look for approval to those who cannot or will not provide it—you play the role assigned to you by your abusers.

We're not really...getting along...she always says I'm...that I'm no good. The things I do are always wrong. She says all these terrible things all the time.. and says it's for my own good. If I talk back, she only blows up at me...but if I stay quiet...I feel like a punching bag...

Sally is a bully of the worst sort, for she never lays a hand on Bill, never gives her bullying a properly physical manifestation. She beats him with words and body language and selectively brutal silences.

Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim's perceptions.

Many partners, who are constantly blamed and confused by verbal abuse, are surprised to realize that they have never said, nor would they think of saying, what is frequently said to them.

The abuser's worth is derived from a sense of one-upmanship and winning over. If the partner accomplishes something, the abuser views her accomplishment

Since name calling is outrageously abusive, it should be responded to with outrage.

beat you like a red-headed stepchild.

Narcissists do not consider the pain they inflict on others; nor do they give any credence to others' perceptions. They simply do not care about thoughts and feelings that conflict with their own. Do not expect them to listen to, validate, understand, or support you. —Les Parker, PhD

mother of a young daughter and son herself, she says, "I understood from a young age that there was nothing I could do to satisfy my mother. She was totally self-absorbed, a narcissist, and she was never able to see me as anything but a projection of herself. And the anger, meanness, and disappointment which began inside of her simply radiated out toward me.

They do this by shaming or intimidating you whenever you have a natural impulse to have sympathy for yourself, or stand up for yourself. The instinct to care for yourself and to protect yourself against unfairness is then forced to become dormant.

Furthermore, Cptsd can also be caused by emotional neglect alone. This key theme is explored at length in chapter 5. If you notice that you are berating yourself because your trauma seems insignificant compared to others, please skip ahead to this chapter and resume reading here upon completion. Emotional neglect also typically underlies most traumatizations that are more glaringly evident.

My parents' twisted version of this boiled down to: "As f*cked up as we are, we're still way better than you".

Emotional abuse is also almost always also accompanied by emotional abandonment, which can most simply be described as a relentless lack of parental warmth and love.

Emotional incest is yet another form of emotional abuse. Emotional incest commonly involves the reversal of the parent/child roles. When this occurs, the mother or father "parentifies" the child who is then manipulated to gratify the unmet childhood needs of the parent. This typically manifests as the parent pumping the child for the unconditional love that she should herself be giving.

Here we will also see how verbal and emotional abuse alone can cause Cptsd, and how profound emotional abandonment is typically at the core of most Cptsd.