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A common control tactic used by perpetrators to maintain control over a victim by manipulating the victim's feelings. |
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Some signs of emotional abuse are:
- Putting the victim down or name-calling to lower self esteem
- Playing mind games and engaging in emotional blackmail
- Doing things to humiliate the victim in public or in front of friends and family
- Making the victim feel guilty for personal or professional successes
- Telling the victim that he/she is crazy
- Isolating the victim by controlling who he/she contacts and sees; limiting the victims ability to engage in outside activities
- Using guilt and jealousy to keep victim from maintaining relationships with friends and family
- Minimizing violence by making light of arguments and abuse; not taking victims concerns seriously
- Denying that anything happened
- Manipulating the victim with lies and contradictions
- Blaming the victim
- Threatening physical violence for non-compliance with orders or requests
- Threatening to make the abuse worse
- Reminding the victim of previous physical violence and threatening to increase the force
- Threatening to kill the victim if he/she leaves
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