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Gaslighting: Origins Of The Phrase
- A 1938 mystery thriller Gas Light, which got made into a popular Ingrid Bergman movie in 1944, became the origin of the phrase.
- The academic world got introduced to the phrase in journal articles of 1980, where experts observed that the conditioning of young women to long and yearn for relationships and connections are in a way gaslighting, as it makes them vulnerable to exploitation.
- In the present time, self-help and relationship books, along with couple-counselling experts use this term to explain types of toxic relationships.
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Action To Be Taken When Gaslighted
The antidote to gaslighting is to be emotionally aware. One has to become self-reliant and stop being gullible.
- Identify the problem that you have with your spouse.
- Remove the distortions and sort out the truth.
- Understand that there is a power struggle with your pa...
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How To Recognize Gaslighting
If the following things sound familiar and common, we may be involved in a gaslighting relationship:
- Being labelled as too sensitive, hysterical or insecure.
- Feeling confused or even crazy in the relationship.
- Always saying sorry.
- Not able to understand why...
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What Turns People Into Gaslighters
- The need to prove oneself right, or prove the other person wrong, to deflect responsibility, or to tear down the other person, is not a trait for most people by birth but is a gift of society.
- Gaslighters learn from the environment, forming their own strategies of what influences a...
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Gaslighting: A Primer
To gaslight means to undermine a person’s reality by denying the environment, facts, emotions and feelings. A person who is gaslighted is often manipulated into turning against their own perceptions and fundamentals.
Gaslighting has now gained mainstream visibility as a form of manipulatio...
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