by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jun 1, 2012 | Verbal and Emotional Abuse
In the previous post, Small Lies Are Emotional Abuse, I described the devastation to the psyche when someone twists around who you think you are. It is emotional abuse; it is mental abuse, and the fact that the process is subtle makes it more, not less, devastating....
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 14, 2012 | Verbal and Emotional Abuse
There’s a subtle type of emotional abuse that it could take you years to uncover: Taking the truth and twisting it around. It’s not a bold-faced lie. It’s a little lie, a subtle and surprising twist — and that’s why it shakes the ground under...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jun 16, 2006 | Verbal and Emotional Abuse
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from the Florida Jewish News There’s little worse than thinking someone is a manipulator who isn’t, except failing to realize you are being manipulated when you are. We should think well of our fellow and give people the benefit of the...
