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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 partner.
- Give yourself permission to feel your feelings.
- Respect yourself.
- Understand that it is okay to leave someone if required.
- Talk to your friends
- Focus on how you feel and not on how something is factually right or wrong.
- Realize that even if you are right, you cannot control the opinion of others.
- Indulge in self-care and self-compassion.
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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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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 ...
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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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Did You Have to Grow Up Too Soon?
Since you had to grow up too early too soon, you might be trained to become hyper-independent. You are incredibly self-reliant that it may feel impossible to be vulnerable or seek help from others.
Being highly self-reliant was your only option in a household with only...
How to recognise gaslighting
Gaslighting comes in three stages:
- Disbelief: You question how the other person can say such unbelievable things.
- Defence: You are always defending yourself, thinking about what you said and who is right or wrong.
- Depression
Gaslighting is a learned behaviour
Gaslighting is a way to make yourself feel better by directing the conversation away from you and onto the other person's character, skills, or reality.
At first, gaslighting in a relationship can cause you to feel isolated, with injured self-esteem, insecure attachment and doubt about your...
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