Why is emotional abuse so scarring?

I sleep with my panic alarm remote. It is positioned at the same exact degree and angle every night, so I know even in a sleepy haze, what button to push. The trauma of emotional abuse and manipulation never leaves you. You don't ever get over it. It is scarred into your psyche. It drives your behavior.”. read more

A2A it doesn't take a psychologist or psychiatrist to figure out why emotional abuse scars people so deeply. Use any word that defines emotions and then define abuse. It destroys people, most of the time for life. A person that has been abused has to fight their natural inclination to how they react with abusers every day of their life. read more

Emotional scars can be the result of many different types of trauma. Abuse is thought of as one of the most common forms of emotional scarring, but in reality, even those who have never been abused physically or mentally have emotional scars. read more

This entry was posted on March 26, 2011, in Abuse Recovery and tagged abuse recovery, creating boundaries, emotional abuse, emotional scares, emotional scars, emotional wounds, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, substance abuse, verbal abuse. read more