Sunday, February 06, 2022

COVID Deniers' Cycle for Abuse

Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

My wife has a bachelor's degree in Psychology, and we've talked about the elements that make up abuse compared to what the liberal left commie Democrats are up to with all of the issues, but especially with the scamdemic.

Let's go over those signs of abuse below, shall we?

A Message To The

Non-Programed Who Question The Agenda

Luke 6:22–23 “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.”


The idea to even write this post came from the image to the left and the verse above, both of which I found on social media.  And, it got me thinking.  I helped my wife with her homework, and helped her study for her tests (and yes, I even helped her write her papers) to get her B.S. in Psychology (after she exhausted her time at a junior college with five associate degrees, all but one of which had something to do with childhood development.  The fifth one was in Math.)


So, I'm thinking about the world situation and then I began pulling out old notes from when my wife was attending Cal State San Bernardino back in the nineties in pursuit of her bachelor's degree in psychology.

For the purpose of this article I am focusing on emotional abuse.

Emotional and verbal abuse can be among the most difficult to spot because there are no physical signs of abuse.  That does not mean that some kind of damage or bruising does not happen.  While I am not one to scream victim very quickly (as a conservative I believe our own decisions often are the primary markers when it comes to our well-being or our ups and downs of our life journey may it be successful or not so much), I recognize that abuse happens and emotional or verbal abuse can be very devastating, especially if we don't realize it is being done to us and we begin to believe the things being launched at us.

Emotional and verbal abuse can have either, or both, short-term and long-lasting effects that are just as serious as the effects of physical abuse.  Typically emotional and verbal abuse includes insults and attempts to scare, isolate, or control the person being targeted.  

Abusers typically seek total control, endeavoring to have constant contact or constant knowledge regarding everything you do and every place you may be.  Emotional abusers also typically try to keep their target from associating with others in an attempt to keep them locked down in one location, discouraging their victim from seeing friends or family.  They try to stop their target from going to work or school, or the abuser places heavy conditions on them if the target convinces the abuser to allow them to enter into the social situations they wish to be a part of.  Abusers also typically attempt to control one's finances, either trying to dictate how they try to spend their money, or set up a system so that the abuser may monitor their target's spending activities.  Abusers tend to stop their target from seeing the doctor, or stand in the way of the target seeking medical care they are aware they may need (sometimes offering alternative remedies that have no connection to what the target truly needs).  Abusers humiliate their targets in front of others, attacking them for daring to have opinions that the abuser finds unacceptable or opinions that show that the target is trying to think for themselves.  Typically name-calling is used to demean or ridicule their target into silence or submission.  Abusers threaten physical pain, or verbalize a willingness to hurt those the target may care about. Abusers decide things for their target that the target should be able to individually decide for themselves.

Abusers typically provide promises of love and attention, taking care of the target, and before the recognizable abuse begins a strong bond is promised, modeled after a notion like it is the team of two against the world.  Over time the behavior changes, becoming more controlling as time passes.

The abuse typically aims to change the behavior of the target, shame the target, make the target feel fearful of upsetting the abuser, make the target feel powerless and hopeless, manipulate or control the target, and ultimately make the target feel so unwanted by the rest of the world that they begin to believe only the abuser cares for them or is capable of caring for them.

Gaslighting is a common tactic used by abusers, designed to make a person question themselves by changing stories or denying to the target that whatever they think is true is not.  The target begins to feel crazy, radical, overly sensitive or that they are chasing after things that just aren't true.  The purpose of gaslighting is to maintain power and control, for if the target begins to question themselves, or what they believe to be the truth, it tends to make the target more dependent upon the abuser, convincing the target to stay in the relationship.  Gaslighting is a slow, gradual technique that happens over time.

In the political world, does any of that sound like the games being played by the Democrats?

Cultural Marxism is a grand scheme of abuse that uses psychology to its fullest extent.  The best way to end an abusive relationship is first to recognize and admit that one exists.  Then, steps must be taken to end the relationship.

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