What is Abuse?
Abuse is association of Emotional, Verbal, Psychological Abuse, Domestic, Family
Violence and Spousal Abuse. Abuse is a manifestation by the abuser in torturing their victims.
The fostering, propagation creates an atmosphere of fear, instability and confusion
upon the victims. Yet the irksome feeling remains in an ambient abuse. As time goes
by, such an environment erodes the victim’s sense of self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence.
This induces feelings of shame, guilt and weakness in the victims and “legitimizes” the
role of the abuser. It is a known fact that recipients of abuse often struggle with feelings
of powerlessness, hopelessness, hurt and anger. Betrayal leads to abuse and guilt, as it affects them emotionally beyond their imagination.
There are different forms of abuse.
Physical Abuse includes hitting with the fist, kicking, grabbing, chocking, slapping,
shoving, pinching, pulling hair or threatening with weapons. These kinds of acts are
assault related.
Psychological/Emotional Abuse includes intimidation, berating, name-calling, insults,
and isolation from associating with others. Destroying victim’s property or pets and disengaging the links of victim’s friends and family.
Sexual Abuse.
The victim is forced into sexual contact, threats of violence before and after sex,
unnatural sex acts with objects and forced to engage with several partners together.
Child Abuse.
There are four types of child abuse; sexual, physical, psychological, and physical neglect.
A child may experience physical violence and also be forced to watch his/her parent being physically abused, and therefore resulting in psychological trauma.
What is Physical Abuse?
Physical Abuse is using physical force and with altercations towards another individual. Physical abuse is one of the most dangerous acts of abuse. It is a criminal act. When an abuser loses all control of reasoning, they may act out in violence without being able to control their temper. The abuser become so enraged and lashes out on his or her victim
as means of control in strength and recklessness.
The end results; recipients of abuse are physically assaulted sustaining bodily harm and hurt. All recipients of abuse are left with mental, emotional and physical scaring for life. Sadly numerous victims of abuse have lost their lives. Their voices are only an “echo” left behind. We have to continue to be their voices, and carry their “torch of light” for their memories and the living.
What is Emotional Abuse?
Emotional abuse is any kind of abuse that is emotional rather than physical in nature.
It is associated with verbal and psychological abuse as well. Emotional abuse is the most difficult kind of abuse to recognize. Often abuse happens behind closed doors in a one-to-one confrontation.
This is because emotional abuse is a form of brainwashing. It tends to reinforce negative emotions and self-perceptions that may have already existed in the abuser. When irrational thoughts are reinforced, recipients of abuse tend to believe, what their loved one is confronting them with every day.
Emotional Abuse is any behavior that is subject to control, and subjugates another human being through the use of fear, intimidation, guilt, coercion, manipulation and humiliation. Aggressive forms of abuse include name-calling, accusing, blaming, threatening and commanding. Aggressing behaviors are generally direct and obvious.
The abuser dominates the victim. This could include threats to end the relationship,
total rejection or abandonment. It can include anything from verbal abuse to constant berating and belittling to insults, insinuations, criticism and accusations toward the
recipient. The abuser finds ways to invalidate the recipient and undermines the equality
and autonomy that are essential to healthy adult relationships.
Emotional abuse slowly eats away at the victim’s self-esteem until she or he is incapable
of judging the situation realistically. They become so convinced that they are worthless
and tend to believe, no one else could want them. They stay in abusive situations because they believe; they have nowhere else to go. Their ultimate fear is being all alone. Their emotional bearings are constrained with unbearable fears for their lives. They are afraid
of being branded as a “weakling.”
Emotional abuse systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self-worth, trust in their own perceptions, and self-concept. Being a victim of abuse can spark
off a wide array of emotions; disarray and sorrowfulness are likely to occur. Eventually,
the recipient of abuse loses all sense of self and remnants of personal value and identity.
Emotional abuse does cuts to the very core of a person, creating scars that may be far deeper and more lasting that physical ones.
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