ITMFA - MENTAL ABUSE GUIDE

     Portions of this post from: eZine@ritcles.com: 
7 Things  to know about Mental Abuse
 

1.    Words won’t leave any measurable physical damage, but they will cause progressive, long-term harm.

2.    You are always told that it’s your fault.

3.    You’re more inclined to believe your partner than you are to believe yourself. As in Renfield's devotion to Count Dracula, mental abuse creates a psychosis where you become the slave to your master.

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies? Flies? Flies? Not me, not when I can get nice fat spiders! 

I'm loyal to you, Master, I am your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh, no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!  And you promised me things, not in words, but by doing them. Oil, more oil and more oil and revenge.  YES, revenge.

Katrina was just lucky but Brownie!  You DID that and it was rich....  But it made me hungry.  MUST HAVE OIL!

To hell with you and your souls! Why do you plague me about souls! Haven't I got enough to worry, and pain, and distract me already, without thinking of souls!  The doctor here will bear me out that on occasion I tried to kill for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of life through the medium of Iraqi blood - relying, of course, upon the scriptural phrase, 'for the blood of life!' though indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarized the truism to the very point of contempt.

4.    You need your partner to acknowledge your feelings. When a partner constantly denies or refuses to listen to your feelings, that is, unquestionably, mental abuse.

5.    Your partner blows hot and cold.

 

6.    You feel as if you are constantly walking on eggshells. Fear is … a vital part of a mentally abusive relationship. It enables the abuser to maintain control over you.

 

7.  HEAL!

 

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