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    is also completely ridiculous. Verbal abuse is described as a negative statement toward a victim that makes them feel bad. It is usually done intentionally and repeatedly. Verbal abuse can mentally affect someone in several ways, like causing emotional pain, paranoia and depression. There are multiple forms of verbal abuse, which include put-downs, name-calling, slurs, derogatory language, negative comments, or condescending tone. LeavingAbuse states, ”Verbal abuse can cause serious psychological

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    realization of how awful this must be for Mrs. Pontellier. To have to listen to your husband be praised, after he berated you the night previously would sting. It would make a person feel isolated and alone. Verbal abuse is damaging enough to a person; however to then be unable to vent the frustrations that abuse leaves you with, due to circumstances and those you find in your company, only worsens the situation. Personally, at times I have an outright miserable relationship with my brother for a multitude

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    What Is Verbal Abuse?

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    When you hear the word “abuse”, you probably think of someone being physically hurt. But abuse comes in many other forms; emotional, verbal, and sexual. Specifically, verbal abuse in marriage can often be overlooked because it does not leave physical scars and usually occurs in private. Verbal abuse can come from either partner, male or female. Any race, color, or religion. The abuser wants to take control and will eventually destroy the victim emotionally. Not only does it affect the victim, but

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    Sticks and Stone Will Break You, But Words Will Not Hurt You? Some people would tell you yes. Bullying can involve direct physical and verbal abuse, it can involve more subtle forms of indirect aggression, such as spreading rumors. I was bullied all through elementary School, Jr. High, and even High School. It made me the man that I am now. Sticks, stones, and words really did hurt me back then. I can remember in elementary school I was always bullied by a group of kids when I got off school. Every

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    to analyse is abuse. The aspect of abuse i’d be focusing on is that verbal abuse toward children is often overlooked today. I happen to come across an interesting statistic of verbal abuse among teens, which has brought about my interest in this topic. Evidently from the website Save Voices, 62% of teenagers (age 11-14) who have been in a relationship claims they recognise friends who have been verbally abused by respective partners (Safe Voices 2014). I was curious if verbal abuse would affect children

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    Topic Sentence: Verbal abuse causes many psychological/Mental Health, physical issues and is just as damaging as physical abuse. 1st Supporting Detail Sentence: Persons who are constantly verbally abused show higher rates of psychological effects and that affected exhibit very high rates of social withdrawal, anger, physical aggression, anxiety, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders and exaggerated startled responses. 1st Supporting Detail E.g Sentence:

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    This advertisement displays a situation that is relatable to everyone when Aware Hotline is sending a message about verbal abuse. the mainstream of people realize that it is not ethically correct for this form of abuse to occur. But there is a maximum number of people who do not even realize that abuse is occurring (Kelly). The problem with verbal abuse is that this causes psychological harm to another human being. By damaging a person’s self-confidence and their ability to cope with

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    Reduce Verbal Abuse

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    Intention to Reduce Verbal Abuse Towards Adolescent In America alone, from surveys taken; researchers found out that 50 out of 90% of reported verbal abuse is directed toward adolescents.The other 40% is directed towards all other age groups and the remaining 10% are the adolescent in America who don’t experience verbal abuse in their home (The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology). A social issue is obstacle that many people face and is wrong but seems normal from how often it

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    The verbal abuse had become so bad that I became depressed and afraid. I was afraid of what could happen next. When he was angry, he would punch holes in the wall. In order to keep people from seeing the holes, I would repair it or place a framed picture on the wall to cover the holes. I never imagined that I would be going through anything like this, especially with someone who said that he loved me. People say that it is important to talk to someone and tell someone when one feels she

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    In my family, there is a generational theme of emotional/ verbal abuse coming from the male to the female. It also works in a way that the female typically ends up apologizing. This has shown itself in my brother’s relationship with his girlfriend. He cannot control his anger, much alike to my father, and says things that he knows will hurt her, and most of the time are not true. I believe I observed this behavior from my parents and through these observations, I was led into an abusive relationship

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