The following are associated with emotional abuse:
- Withholding love, affection and attention
- Ignoring, or refusing to communicate with, them
- Threatening the individual
- Abandoning, or threatening abandonment
- Fits of anger and rage
- Engaging in chronic deceit
- Criticizing, belittling, ridiculing or demeaning the individual
- Negatively labelling the person
- Controlling their life and ordering them around
- Minimizing their opinions, and ignoring the person’s wishes, needs and preferences
- Gaslighting, and denying the individual’s reality
- Isolating the person from their family and friends.
