Emotional Abuse: Fact or Myth?

Emotional Abuse is a kind of abuse that no one can really see or visualize. Half the time, no one even knows it’s there. It happens to us all in our everyday lives even if we don’t notice it. There is no universal definition for what exactly emotional abuse is, everyone has their own definition for emotional abuse. The main thing about emotional abuse is that when it happens we aren’t exactly aware of it. We don’t know that it will affect us in the ways that it does. We may be thinking ‘oh it’s nothing I’ll get over it’ when someone is criticizing the way we do something or the way we speak or even how we are in general. Most people go for the looks that’s how they get you and next thing you know you have flaws and you don’t know where they came from or how you came to realize that they were even there in the first place. Emotional abuse takes a toll on how you live your life and who you truly believe that you are.
Some of the effects of emotional abuse are low self-esteem, isolation, desperation, the fear of ‘letting go’, severe anxiety, and withdrawal, overly passive, sleep disturbances, the inability to trust, frequent crying and depression. Sometimes when emotional abuse is inflicted on you, things that are told to you are burned into your subconscious and over a period of time these things, these insecurities, these flaws they taunt you. They make you over look yourself and feel like you aren’t good enough. You begin to believe these lies over time and you don’t realize it but you begin to admit to them as if you always had before and you allow yourself and your mind to believe that it was you who created this image, this flaw for yourself when indeed it was someone else. This is not the way that it is with everyone. Not all people have the same defense mechanisms.
To be honest emotional abuse has many different obstacles and it all depends on how you personally can handle situations that are thrown in your direction. Many people that I know have been through emotional abuse and they’re bad at dealing with situations that are thrown at them. It’s kind of like baseball; the batter never knows when the pitcher will throw him a curve ball. That’s how life is with emotional abuse and all things that occur in everyday life in general you never know what’s going to happen. Emotional abuse isn’t this fictional thing that people just make up it is real and it happens every day whether we like to admit it or not. We can’t just ignore this like it isn’t a world epidemic not to exaggerate or anything but emotional abuse in teens has increased 96% in the past five years. Dealing with this isn’t something anyone can handle by themselves. Most of the time emotional abuse isn’t recognized by how you’re feeling. It’s usually falls under the actions you take like for instance hurting yourself or others around you. I believe that the worse kind of abuse is the abuse that you cannot see. The abuse that happens behind closed doors. When no one can help you or hear you crying out for their help. This is indeed REAL and not at all a Myth in any which way.