Link: Psychological Violence

[sonia]

This essay is powerful enough that I feel wordless around it. Psychological Violence by Nimue Brown.

It’s so easy to make clear to a person that they are worthless, useless, a nuisance, unwanted, unloveable, unacceptable. The martyred air of one who is having to go to some lengths to tolerate you, is soul destroying to encounter.

via spiralsheep

Comments

[tim]

This sounds interesting, but the link doesn't work (it just goes back to the current page).

[sonia]

Thanks for the heads-up. Should work now.

Disturbing enough for me that I forgot to put the link in, and forgot to test after posting. Yeah.

[jesse_the_k]

That sounds intriguing — and so familiar from my growing-up that I'll leave that link alone today.

[sonia]

I understand. And I'm sorry to hear that.