Emotional abuse is the ongoing emotional mistreatment of a person by another. It is sometimes known as psychological abuse and can have severe impact on a person’s life.
It can involve deliberately trying to scare, intimidate, frighten, or humiliate an individual.
Emotional abuse allows the perpetrator to gain power and control over someone through their language, behaviours, and gestures, which over time erode the person’s sense of self-respect, confidence, and self-belief.
Emotional abuse can sap a person’s confidence making it difficult for them to form or maintain relationships outside of the relationship with their partner. Victims of emotional abuse struggle to feel worthy or valued.
