bevsi:

ok I’ve seen the word gaslighting used completely insensitively and incorrectly, and I really wanted to remind everyone that gaslighting is a term used for a specific kind of abusive tactic where the abuser continually and purposefully makes you doubt your perception of reality, in order to make you doubt what happened to you actually happened, and ultimately doubt your sanity. for example, hitting you and then continuously saying they never hit you and you must have imagined it. not someone disagreeing with you, not someone saying your opinion is wrong - that’s an argument. can we please not water down important abuse terminology 

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22. thepalmtoptiger said: It can still happen in the case of emotional abuse. Like someone purposely isolating you from your friends/family and when you tell them about it later they go “you have contacted them this whole time”. Or twisting arguments around later that they started to make you feel like you’re the one to blame. Like someone else said using the mental illness angle. It doesn’t have to be physical at all. It has to do with control and making the other person doubt their memory and recollection of things.
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