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 and persuades other people. They believe that each relationship is a power struggle, where they have to assert themselves.
- Some people doing gaslighting might not be even aware of it, and it could be an unconscious bad habit picked up from their friends and relationships.
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