I was the victim of domestic abuse, and I wasn’t even aware of it at the time.

This is my side of a story of domestic psychological abuse through sleep deprivation, gaslighting, and other methods.

One important addition: Be wary of the gaslighter’s escalation tactic of re-framing who you are to other people. I began to realize that I was getting odd responses from others, a sense that they were ‘walking on eggshells’ or too-quickly disengaging in some situations. It took a long time before I realized that my gaslighter was actually taking…

How to Tell if Someone is Gaslighting You

One day while was self-diagnosing myself through Wikipedia, I just happened to stumble upon a phenomenon that I was completely unaware of and in no way ever participated in: gaslighting. The term, itself, comes from the play “Gas Light” in which a husband…

Been reading about gaslighting today on various sites. I wish I had access to all this material when young — I was raised by a mother who used gaslighting to control me. Spent most of my life in a state of humiliation and shame — so convinced I was a worthless burden that I couldn’t break from my family, because they were all I had. I finally went No…