“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath… I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”— Martha Stout, amazon.com
“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe"…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe"…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Executed effectively and done chronically, gaslighting causes self-doubt and cognitive dissonance – a state of turmoil stirred by inconsistent attitudes and beliefs. Survivors of emotional predators sense that something is amiss, but when they attempt to address it, they are often blindsided by thei…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Regardless of what your spiritual beliefs are, let’s put them to good use. Let’s extend the idea of interconnectedness to help victims who suffer every day from the realities of verbal, emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Let’s stop letting abusers off the hook and enabling their behavior – it is…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“The best karma a narcissist can receive is actually the weight of your indifference and success after you leave them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Abusers have not morphed into a new person with their latest victim. Time and time again, the narcissist acts as a magician and presents the greatest illusion of all: the disappearing act, followed by a honeymoon romance with his or her latest victim. Don’t fall for these cheap magic tricks. These a…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“The erasure of the abuse was worse than the abuse. One of the most insidious things about gaslighting is the denial of reality. Being denied what you have seen. Being denied what you have experienced and know to be true. It can make you feel like you are crazy. But you are not crazy.”— Ariel Leve, theguardian.com
“Abusers want you to feel small, to make you insecure, to make you feel like you are indebted to them, or that your actions are to blame.”— Ellen Page, facebook.com
“To be clear what Harvey Weinstein did was a disgusting abuse of power and horrible. I hope we are now seeing the beginning of the end of these abuses.”— Mark Ruffalo, twitter.com
“If you are being abused, tell somebody. If that person doesn’t believe you, tell somebody else. A parent, a family member, a teacher, a coach, a friend’s parent. Help is there.”— Breanna Stewart, theplayerstribune.com
“Every time I tell someone, I feel a little more unburdened.”— Breanna Stewart, theplayerstribune.com
“My music, my performances and my fans were all I had in the world. I gave that up and started over not because I wanted to but because I had to. As difficult as it was, I knew that leaving was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It has taken me years to recover from enduring almost a decade of…”— Alice Glass, alice-glass.com
“Abusers and manipulators don’t act toxic to everyone, so just because they’re good to you doesn’t mean they didn’t abuse someone else.”— FOR THE FALLEN MEMES, twitter.com
“With the pairing family, therefore, the abduction and barter of women began—widespread symptoms, and nothing but that, of a new and much more profound change.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“Just FYI, if you’re ever working in the movie business, and someone says ‘welcome to Hollywood’ to you, that person is truly the worst.”— Liz Meriwether, thecut.com
“I only had one goal in life: to become a better dad than my dad was. My dad beat me”— theGuitarist27, reddit.com
“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon ou…”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org