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He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

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Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face.
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Children Selfish Stupid
Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .
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Accomplishment Feelings Good Over Time Undermining
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.
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Being Hurt Speaking Up Yourself
Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn’t work, they walk away.
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Abundantly Away Strong Tolerate Walk Women
There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person.
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Abuse Confidence Emotional Self
Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won’t like me, and it’s okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that’s all that matters.
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Being Powerful Thinking Yourself
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
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Abuse Domestic Emotional Violence
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
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Decisions Ideas Opinion Rights
Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging.
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Accompanied Critical Damaging Yelling
With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically.
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Believe Emotional Esteem Self
He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.
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Begin Believe Emotionally Fear Losing Themselves
We have been told and feel that we are responsible for their emotional well-being. We are not. We are responsible only for ourselves.
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Emotion Ourselves Responsible
Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.
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Being Imperfection Unique Yourself
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage.
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Accomplishment Confidence Self Worth
They often become frightened whenever they feel anything intensely, be it anger, pain, fear, or even love and joy. They fear their emotions will consume them or make them crazy.
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Angered Crazy Emotion Joy Love
It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others.
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Being Important Looks Yourself
You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
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Angry Changed Income More Probably
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused.
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Abuse Faces Long Ago
Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim’s self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.
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Concept Self Systematic Victim Wears
Positive and powerful: It’s more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.
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Positive Powerful Someone Thinking

He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

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He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

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