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What is considered mental or emotional abuse?

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Answer:

Mental and emotional abuse means someone is making you feel less of yourself, generally for their own satisfaction and gratification. This abuse is a means for controlling you. They may use guilt in order to make you obey them. You have the right to a happy life without being controlled.

Question

Would it include being told that you will never accomplish anything in life, and they always say they are disappointed in you? Or would using a lot of threats, like saying they will put you up for adoption be considered abuse?

Answer

Yes, absolutely. Abuse is a pattern of control. Threats, and derogatory statements in repetition is abuse.

QUESTION:
Would being told that you are nothing, that your worthless, be emotional abuse? Would being neck pinch nerved and twisted arm bhind your back while being pushed down harshly into your bedroom be physical abuse? Would yelling and slapping being abuse?
I don't know. THis is what my father and guadiran do to me. I Tend to have the symptoms of sexual, physical, and mostly emotional abuse a lot. I can't help it, I seriosly can't.

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