Is someone in your life using these harmful tactics to make you doubt yourself or your reality? Here's what to do next.
for improving self-esteem. It focuses on improving current situations in our lives, as opposed to fixating on problems from the past, and helping us get needs met in the present. A gaslighter wants nothing to do with the reality of the present and will instead continue to fixate on the past, which is more difficult to organize and defend.This form of gaslighting typically occurs after the early stages of love-bombing when one grows to idealize their abuser.
The gaslighter will work to make their target believe that others think they are just as crazy or defective as the gaslighter says they are. This tactic is neither casual nor passive; it is overtly dismissive and aggressive, further eroding self-esteem and making it difficult to connect with positive feelings about oneself. Imagine if you woke up one day, hospitalized, and were told that you had suffered a mental breakdown and everything you thought happened last week was a dream.
in your right to joy and love, and so any efforts you make to defend yourself will likely be weaponized with other forms of gaslighting.
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