The Road to Healing Emotional & Mental Abuse

Emotional and mental abuse affects millions of people in the United States per year. This lasting effect of abuse can sometimes be worse then physical abuse. There are various types of emotional abuse ranging from rejection, ignoring, terrorizing, isolating, and corrupting to name a few.

Emotional abuse is carried forever in ones heart and soul and is one of the hardest of all abuses to over come once you have lived through this type of abuse. Most women do not even realize what emotional abuse is. There are a few simple things that qualify as emotional abuse.

Ask yourself these few simple questions.

Have you had your feelings ignored by someone that is close to you?

Have you been ridiculed or insulted in front of a group, or been ridiculed or insulted over your beliefs, heritage, or religion?

You are continually criticized or called names, shouted at?

Have you been humiliated by this person in public or private setting?

If you have answered yes to any of these this is considered emotional abuse. There are many other ways to tell if its emotional abuse but what it boils down to is if anyone makes you feel less then what you are that's emotional abuse.

If you are experiencing emotional abuse you need to escape from the situation before you can heal yourself. Contact local agencies that can help you find a support group in your area. Emotionally abused people will need to rebuild who they are, gather back their self confidence. The road to recovery is a very long hard road. You will need the support and safety of people you can trust. Since the road is a road that you will need to travel mostly alone to heal as you will have to learn to understand your feelings, then move on to accepting them and then finally release them.

When you are on the road to recovery you will learn that it's hard and you may want to fall back into "old habits" but you need for your own mental well being to push on further and surround yourself with positive issues and positive loving, trusting people. You will need to form new daily habits so that you do not fall back into old habits possibly pushing you to go back to the abuser and what is familiar to you.

Most women at first will try and fall back into that familiar category and will not be able to make a clean break. This is why a support group can come into helping you stay away and keep focused on what is most important... you!