Shannen asked:


I know there are cases where someone can be removed from a family situation if there is physical or sexual abuse, but what about emotional abuse? I’m 16 years old and i don’t know if i will be able to hold out for another year of school and living with my mother. She is emotionaly abusing me so much that i am at the breaking point. I sometimes wish i had the balls to kill myself. It’s just getting so bad that i can’t take it anymore.

I don’t know where else to turn. I have a councelor that i’ve had ever since my mom made us f*cking homeless but i haven’t seen her in a while and i feel like everyone is just abandoning me. I don’t know what to do.

Sometimes i feel like i need my mother so much, but other times i just want to kill her.

Geoff

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Okay how do you know if you are being emotionally abused? I am currently 14 years old. I have bad memories of my alcoholic father’s on and off drinking, and I am scarred from things I’ve heard from my parents such as being referred to as a whore, and such for behavior my mom didn’t like, and things like that. Also, from big fights between my parents that took a toll on me, & verge of divorce that was promised but never occurred. I also have a bipolar father with depression, and suffer from depression. I am in therapy but it doesn’t help me very much. I tried to commit suicide and run away about a year ago, and still suffer from depression. My therapist says she think that my depression was caused my dysfunctional family. Do you think I would be considered to be “emotionally abused”? Is there really anything you can do about emotional abuse? I know for sexual abuse, physical abuse, & neglect that you could be put under foster care. But, if you are being emotionally abused, what can you do? Please leave sources if you know of any, and I appreciate all your time and answers.

Gary

pandoras_enygma asked:


So this is my question….

why is it perceived that emotional abuse is not as bad as physical or sexual abuse?

I am NOT in any way belittling the long term effects of physical or sexual abuse. I have family who are the product of physical and sexual and psychological (emotional) abuse as a child. They have PTSD and horrible flash backs to this day (and they are 52 years old).

My question though, is why is psychological/emotion abuse not considered as “bad”? In a court of law, at least in Ohio, this type of abuse isn’t necessarily recognized. I know of plenty of people who were seriously screwed with mentally and emotionally, but not physically or sexually, who have turned out just as screwed up as those who have been sexually and/or physically abused.

Why is this? I don’t understand. And maybe if you know some laws this might make some more sense as well.

Shayna B asked:


im being verbal and emotional abuse by my mother [since i was 12 and im 17 now]

what can be done?

what can happen to her?

what can happen to me?

is there a hotline i can call for this?if so can i have the number plz

Colin

maura asked:


How can I recover from emotional abuse? I was in a relationship and he treated me like a child, always telling me what to do, what to wear, basically everything! He made me feel like no one else would ever want me. He also was overly emotional and I feel that he drained me emotionally. I have turned into a very angry person. I feel at times that I can’t feel happy or sad. I also feel like I can turn off negative emotions at any time- what I believe to be a survival tactic that I learned to use during the relationship in order to not go crazy. It’s not that I lack confidence or self esteem. I have learned to build those back up. The problem is my anger and lack of emotion. I can easily get irritated and angry at anything- something that never happened to me before. I also feel kind of numb. Does anyone have similar experiences or understand this? What can I do to become the old happy me again??

Patricia

Rosa:) asked:


Can you Please Define Emotional Abuse. What Does The Abuser do?Thanks

Pauline

maura asked:


How can I recover from emotional abuse? I was in a relationship and he treated me like a child, always telling me what to do, what to wear, basically everything! He made me feel like no one else would ever want me. He also was overly emotional and I feel that he drained me emotionally. I have turned into a very angry person. I feel at times that I can’t feel happy or sad. I also feel like I can turn off negative emotions at any time- what I believe to be a survival tactic that I learned to use during the relationship in order to not go crazy. It’s not that I lack confidence or self esteem. I have learned to build those back up. The problem is my anger and lack of emotion. I can easily get irritated and angry at anything- something that never happened to me before. I also feel kind of numb. Does anyone have similar experiences or understand this? What can I do to become the old happy me again??

Kohan

Victoria ? asked:


any songs about ONLY emotional abuse are great.

thanks lovers.

Craig

Sally asked:


i think my husband was emotionally abused as a child; he has always strongly denied/minimized this hypothesis of mine, in fact he claims he had an idyllic childhood, loving parents and his parents are his God. He strongly defends his parents (and all blood relations.

He thinks he should be grateful to his parents for giving birth to him (his mother delivered him by C-section and to this day that fact is brought up in every conversation with her) and for raising him (giving him food and shelter), and for all the ” great sacrifices” they made for him.

I asked him to give ONE example of “great sacrifice”, and the best he could come up was that his mother would agree to turn down to TV to volume 2 when he studied in the neighboring room. The fact that he considers this a sacrifice at all seems to indicate emotional abuse, the fact that he feels he is so unimportant that he should be grateful for his mother turning down the TV volume.

He is now a sex addict (details are too long, and are at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmcmSDCasJdhA8uTgy639cDty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080914011517AAWgLqS )

So my question is, what behavior would you classify as emotional abuse of children? His parents still try to control our marriage, our finances (they take large amounts of money from him), our life, and succeed at it - they treat him like a 10 year old and demand unquestioned obedience - and he gives them that.
i think most answers refer to “verbal abuse” (name-calling, insulting, demeaning). i am talking about emotional abuse - isn’t a child supposed to feel cherished, important, and worthy? i understand he was not directly verbally abused (because he was obedient - what can you scold an obedient child about?), but isn’t emotional unavailability, emotional neglect not emotional abuse?

Tyler