Emotional Abuse
Abuse is a very emotionally powerful word. It usually implies intent or
even malice on the part of the abuser. But parents who emotionally
abuse or neglect their children seldom do so intentionally.
Studies have found that neglect can be more damaging than outright
abuse. A survey of maltreated children found that neglected children
were the most anxious, inattentive, and apathetic, and that they often
tended to be alternatively aggressive and withdrawn.
Emotional abuse often includes communicating to a child, either
verbally or nonverbally, that he or she is unlovable, ugly, stupid, or
wicked.
Emotional abuse is like water dripping every day on a stone,
leaving a depression, eroding the personality by an unrelenting
accumulation of incidents that humiliate or ridicule or dismiss.
Emotional abuse is air and piercing vibration. Emotional abuse
can feel physical even though no hand has been raised. The perpetrator may seem fragile and pathetic but still be vicious.
Childhood emotional abuse can define us when we are young,
debilitate us as we grow older, and spread like a virus as we take
its phrases and turn them on others.
Culled from Healing your emotional self by Beverly Engel
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
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