Psychological violence occurs when someone uses threats and causes fear in you to gain control.
Psychological Abuse is:
- threatening to harm you, your children or your family if you leave
- threatening to harm themselves
- threats of violence
- threats of abandonment or breaking up
- destruction of your personal property
- social isolation from your family and friends
- being dominent over you
- confinement to the home
- verbal aggression (name calling, yelling, insults, imitating or mocking you)
- Excluding you from meaningful events or activities
- not allowing you to have visitors or preventing you from being around certain people
- constant humiliation
- telling you that you are not good enough - that no one else would ever want you or put up with you
- intentionally frightening you
- making derogative or slanderous statements about you to others, telling others things you said or did to cause drama