Sharing – Psychological Abuse Explained

I learned a lot from reading this article:

Psychological abuse can be hard to recognise but deeply damaging. Learn to identify the signs, understand its impact, and explore compassionate support.

https://napac.org.uk/psychological-abuse/

Its list of resources is centered around the UK audience, but I think the subject matter is something we can all learn more about. Often, when I talk to other child abuse survivors, there can be a sense that some physical abuse is worse than others, and sexual abuse is even worse than that. Still, different types of abuse are not given the attention they deserve relative to the damage that is done to a child. We do the same thing with partner abuse, workplace abuse, etc. The more physical violence done to someone, the “worse” off we consider them.

This logic that emotional and psychological abuse isn’t “as bad” gives short shrift to the people who’ve been psychologically abused. We also don’t recognize the emotional and psychological abuse that went on alongside the other forms of abuse in our situations. That can limit us when it comes to healing. We can’t heal what we don’t know. If we ignore the impacts of these other forms of abuse, we run the risk of dealing with the effects for the rest of our lives instead of taking them on in our healing work.

Take it seriously. Read more at the link and consider what effects you may be dealing with and what effects someone you care about may be dealing with as well.