mental

Mental abuse can happen to just about anybody. it occurs when a person tries to control information available to another person as to manipulate that person's sense of reality: what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. For example, telling someone to take something off because if u wear that you'll be considered the slut of the town or telling someone they will never amount to anything. One that really gets to me is when family tells you "your going to end up just like your mother/father a low-down no good son of a biscuit." Of all things to say to someone that is one thing that will break someone down. I think people do it so they can manipulate a person to do whatever they wanted. It may be emotional abuse in this sense when it is designed to cause emotional pain to victims or to “mess with their heads” in attempts to gain compliance and counter any resistance. Alternatively, mental abuse may occur when one victim is forced to watch another be abused in some fashion (verbally, emotionally, physically or sexually). Like verbal abuse, mental abuse is often not recognized as abuse early on and can result in serious psychological effects later on down the lines of their life. it also leads them to abuse other things such as drugs and alcohol.