Effects of emotional abuse

The effects of emotional abuse is very wide spread, a lot of people that suffer from Psychological abuse, or emotional abuse.  Emotional abusers are anyone that subjects or exposes someone else to behavior that is emotionally harmful.  This type of abuse is often done by people that have more power in the situation.  This can be either in a relationship, or bullying, or child abuse, or in the workplace.  Another thing about emotional abuse is that it doesn't only effect the person that is targeted, but it also effects the people that are around it when it happens.  Children that are around people that are being abused can show signs of Chronic Depression, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociation, and Anger, and often grow up and do the same thing, or search out people that will do that to them in some cases. 

The leading misconception is that females are mostly the victims in emotional abuse.  But studies suggest that both genders are equally the abusers and the victims.  It has been said that women often are more likely then men to be emotional abusers.  Another misconception is that verbal or emotional abuse often leads to physical abuse.  That is not always true, but what is true is that most people that are being physically abused are often emotional abused as well. 

Studies have shown that people that are the abusers whether they are male or female share the same traits with each other.  Some of these traits might be jealousy, suspicions, drastic mood swings, a higher approval of violence in situations, and poor self control.  These studies often showed that males that showed interpersonal aggression towards strangers, and their intimate female partners, while women didn't show aggressions to strangers, just to their male partners.

There are many myths about emotional abusers that give them excuses as to why they do what they do.  Even though they swear that these excuses in their minds are the reason why the abuse is ongoing, they are not.  Here are some of the myths that you might here when you know someone or are a victim yourself of emotional abuse.

Abusers often tell the person being abused that they are the reason they lose control and go off.  When it is proven that anger can be controlled because the abuser is only damaging the victims things, or they change there demeanor when someone comes to the door.  This is when the abuser switches the story around and says that they are the victim because they are calm and the actual victim is the abuser because they look like they are disturbed.

Another myth is the use of alcohol and drugs, often abusers blame those substances as to the reason they emotionally abuse their partners.  But if they stop drinking or using drugs the blame switches to the added stress of having to stay away from those things are leading them to abuse again.

There are just a couple of the myths that are associated with emotional abuse.  There are many more that are not proven but often explain the situations that some people go through to justify why they do what they do. 

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