Emotional Abuse is Characterized by a Climate of Abuse

Unlike physical or sexual abuse, where a single incident constitutes abuse, emotional abuse is made up of a series of incidents, or a pattern of behavior that occurs over time. Emotional abuse is more than just verbal insults, the most common definition of emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is a series of repeated incidents - whether intentional or not - that insults, threatens, degrades, humiliates and/or controls another person.

It may include a pattern of one or more of the following abuses: insults, criticisms, aggressive demands or expectations, threats, rejection, neglect, blame, emotional manipulation & control, isolation, punishment, terrorizing, ignoring, or teasing.


The Effects of Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is not only under-reported, but it's effects are minimized. The famous childhood verse, "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me" is simply not true. In fact, being emotionally abuse was often more devastating & had longer-term effects.

Emotional abuse cuts to the core of a person, attacking their very being. Emotional abuse, if frequent enough, is usually internalized by the victim & leaves them feeling fearful, insignificant, unworthy, untrusting, emotionally needy, undeserving & unlovable & as if they were bad, deserving of punishment & to blame.

Being emotionally abused people often have a hard time understanding why they feel so bad. The abuse may not sound like much & often people around them will minimize the experience, telling them it's not so bad. But a climate of disregard for a person's feelings, where one is subjected to constant or frequent criticisms, being yelled at, or being ignored - has a deep & profound effect, attacking the very self-image & confidence of a person.

Sounds rite aite?? If you say it and don mean it, y did you appologize??

Come to think of that i'm kinda lucky tat i do not have ta be bonded for 2 yrs.
yawn so bored.. i had kinda busy week i was working on last monday. Von, ting and Gab came to find me. i ran off halfway during my workshift and join them eating in mamaison. Anyway, it was only a storey up. After that, they came to find me at Venezia and i treated them with a 2 scoops of waffle ice cream. One dark choc and the other rum & raisin. X) simply delicious.

2 days ago...
Bahwan, Yvonne, Rayner and I went to Johor together. X)
We had our BAK KUT TEH in the morning.
Shop in Jusco in the afternoon.
Den sing K in Neway located at City Square from 1600hrs-2000hrs.
Thx to my bahwan we got extra 1 free hr for singing.
By tat time our throats are rather sore. S:
We were slightly tired as we had to wake up early in the morning at 9am. X:
We had fun. X)
At bout 9pm, we went to the usual place 食德福 and eat.
As usual, we would order the satay, bbq meatball, stingray......many more... and yvonne's kangkong. -_-
Well, i kinda support piracy for disc. X:
Eventually, i bought 2 discs. One is "Caroline" and the other "Obsessed"
I got both for only Rm 10. S:
Anyway, the movie tix is also quite cheap. Its only rm 10 per person and its by cathay. S: If you don't support piracy.