Bringing Emotional Abuse To The Forefront. No Relationship

In the article “Five Reasons People Abuse their Partners”, written by Carrie Askin, she discusses why men decide to abuse their spouse. Also, Askin is the Co-Director of Menergy, which is a treatment center for abusive partners. Askin goes into great depth and thinks psychological of the many reasons why someone would abuse another person. Askin did not blame it on their behavior but she revealed that a person may be abusive because this person may not know how to react when their ego is bruised, they feel entitled, lack of empathy, lack of accountability, and unaddressed trauma. And then she elaborated on each point. So Askins’s goal by listing those five topics was to show people that there is a deeper reason on why someone may be abusive.

Many women and men seek intimate relationships in order to fill their emotional needs of security, safety and love. Their journey starts off with their loved ones spoiling them with flattering gifts and emotional words. The love they feel is so wonderful and deep that they believe that nothing can come between them. They are so happy and convinced that they will live happily ever after with the one they love. Unfortunately, the fairytale they have dreamt about was only temporary and soon comes to an end. The love story they have ones longed for turns into a horrible nightmare. The emotional words they were once spoiled with turn into howling screams and name-calling. The flattering gifts turn into physical abuse. This relationship is referred to as domestic violence or intimate partner violence. This happens when a partner or significant other declares power, authority and control over the other partner. To maintain this authority and control, the abusive partner uses emotional, physical or sexual abuse over his victim (Alters 27). Victims will desperately look for an exit out of this relationship, but only to be blocked by numerous walls of the despair, fear and misery. Many people are convinced that victims have the option of leaving, but they are too weak and they choose not to. What many people don 't know is, victims of domestic violence have many reasons preventing them from leaving their abusers. In most cases the outcomes of leaving are

I chose this topic because I feel it meets a true community need; too many young people, girls in particular, are falling prey to abusive relationships. The effects are far-reaching, and the loss of self-esteen that so often occurs leaves invisible scars. I also feel that emotional abuse among young girls in dating realtionships is far too often ignored, and when it is recognized, many people do not know how to help the young girls deal with it in an effective manner.

The abuse is usually frequent enough that the victim internalizes it. This leaves the victim feeling fearful, insignificant, untrusting, emotionally needy, and unlovable. Survivors of this form of abuse have a hard time understanding why they feel so bad (Munro, K. 2001.).

Emotional- Emotional abuse is usually unrecognised and can be very hurtful to someone. Not all abusive relationships involve violence, just because your not bruised and hurt doesn’t mean you haven’t been abused. Men and women have been hurt from emotional abuse and are no less hurtful than physical abuse. Emotional abuse is when someone makes you feel your not good enough by being yelled at, name calling, blamed for things, made to feel shamed, isolated from friends or family, scared, trapped, and the feeling of being controlled. You may feel

Abuse can come in many forms, including those that we cannot physically see. Intimate partner violence can occur physically, sexually, and psychologically and emotionally. Physical violence includes the use of physical force, such as slapping, hitting, kicking, grabbing, throwing, use of a weapon, and the like, with the intention to cause harm, injure, or kill (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Sexual violence describes violence that uses force to compel a person to engage in sexual activity against their will or ability to decline. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). And lastly, psychological and emotional violence involves harming the victim through the use of threats or coercive tactics such as, but not limited to, humiliating, controlling, isolating, or stalking (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Similarly, there are two major forms of intimate partner abuse: intimate terrorism and situational couple violence (Leone, Lape, and Xu). Intimate terrorism describes a pattern of abuse in which one partner exercises a cycle of continuous power and control over their significant other by means of physical or coercive actions that trap their victim in the relationship while, in contrast, situational couple violence refers to violence that it provoked by a specific conflict (Leone, Lape, and Xu). Overall, it is clear that intimate partner abuse occurs in a variety of ways and to varying degrees of

What is Intimate Partner Violence? If one has not lived through it, the meaning is unknown. When we hear the term, we tend to picture a woman covered in bruises. In reality, the damage is much worse. There is many long term effects that run deeper than the physical injuries (Giardino, 2010). Victims experience shame, isolation, detrimental physical and mental health consequences and financial stressor. This also causes dramatic effects on the families of the victims. This violence also affects the children who may be at an increased risk of physical abuse. Children who live through IPV suffer through the trauma of witnessing the violence and having feelings of fear, guilt, and shame.

Working thesis: Many victims of abuse continue a relationship with their abuser because they do not recognize the signs of abuse.

Physical abuse not only effects a person's current state of mind, but it effects them throughout their life.

Physical violence is more evident as abuse, but emotional abuse can affect a human being just as much. Emotional or verbal abuse can eventually cause a person to feel depressed, helpless, lost, and alone. Although it is a little harder to identify emotional abuse in a relationship, the effects are just as serious as any other type of abuse. The effects of this cruelty can even cause a person to feel

What this definition fails to recognise is that not all domestic violence can be defined as this. Sometimes, the scars that hurt the most are the psychological and emotional ones. We believe that abuse that creates these types of scars is grossly unrecognised, and that the government and society need to recognise how widespread this type of abuse is. And not just recognise it, but provide greater support and more developed strategies for responding to this

Physical and emotional abuse can originate from any source but the majority of the abuse generates from parental or adult figures and is direct toward a timid figure, typically a child. The abuser commonly chooses a more timid recipient because they will be less likely to stand up against the abuser. Physical abuse is maltreatment that involves actual contact between one body part of a person and an other body part of an other person, such as hitting or slapping. Emotional abuse consists of just the opposite: maltreatment that is directed to harming the individual psychologically, such as negative comments or put downs (National Exchange Club Foundation, 2000).

The CDC reports that nearly half of all men and women in the United States have been psychologically abused by a romantic partner, while around a quarter of women and 1 in 7 men have been physically abused [2]. This is a dramatic difference from areas like the United Kingdom, where 8.2% of women and 4% of men have been abused [3] One in three people experience abuse by a romantic partner by the age of eighteen [4]. In 2015, 87% of hospitalized abuse victims in New York state were women, and were admitted more often than male victims [5]. This can likely be partially attributed to traditional gender roles, which assume that men are “stronger” than women and are “weak” if they are hurt by a woman.

To be part of the study participants needed to be heterosexual, and in a relationship that was sexually, physically and/or psychologically abusive. The women were asked to provide information to open ended questions related to their decision to leave the relationship or stay. The narrative prompt survey asked questions inquiring why each participant chose to stay in the abusive relationship or why you decided to leave the relationship. The findings of the study implicated that there was a widespread minimization and lack of understanding about abuse. The authors suggest that there is a need for dating violence education beginning early in life. The importance of the college mental health providers providing information regarding the risks of staying in an abusive relationship is also recommended. The findings of further study of a more diverse larger population would make the results more generalizable. Further study would promote increased understanding of the reasons for staying or leaving in this type of relationship. This article helpful to our group to confirm the argument that education, awareness and prevention of IPV is still needed in colleges and

“Emotional abuse is any act of verbal assault, confinement, degradation, dishonor, daunting, isolation, demoralization or any other treatment which may lower self esteem, dignity and self identity”. It is most common form of abuse. It is any kind of abuse in emotions rather than physical in nature. It is like verbal abuse such as constant criticism, repeated objection or even the refusal to ever be pleased. It is like brain washing that systematically impairs the victim’s self respect, sense of self worth, trust on their capabilities and self confidence. The act of abuse in the form of specific behaviors is performed by parents, teachers, peers and other people lived in society. People do emotional abuse by denying, minimizing,