hi all,
i am a victim of severe emotional/verbal abuse during my
childhood.
the kind of emotional abuse i suffered includes:
Rejection
Rejection occurs from a refusal to acknowledge a person's presence,
value or worth, It is achieved by communicating to a person that
she or he is useless or inferior and by devaluing that person's
thoughts and feelings. For example, continually treating a child
differently from siblings in a way that is unfair and suggests
dislike for the child.
Degradation
This occurs from the use of insulting behaviour, such as
ridiculing, name calling, imitating and infantilizing. It aims to
diminish the dignity and self-worth of the person, and affects
their sense of identity in a demeaning way. Examples include:
yelling, swearing, publicly humiliating or labelling a person as
stupid; mimicking a person's disability; or treating someone as
though they were much younger than they are and preventing them
from making normal decisions.
Terror
This is the evocation of extreme fear in a person, done by coercion
through intimidation. It can include placing or threatening to
place a person in an unfit or dangerous environment. Examples
include: making a child watch violence perpetrated on people the
child cares about or a pet; making threats to abandon or kill a
child; threatening to damage a person's possessions; stalking
Emotional Unresponsiveness
This entails the failure to provide care in a sensitive and
responsive manner and is manifested by being detached and
uninvolved, interacting only when necessary and ignoring a person's
mental health needs. Examples include: ignoring a child's attempt
to interact; failure to show a child affection; treating someone as
though they are an object, "a job to be done".
any of you out there who suffered the same fate as me?
did you seek professional help?
