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Is Getting the Silent Treatment Abuse?
Relationships are the goal of many. We all want to be in love. Yet those intimate relationships can often end up taking us to dark places. And one of those can be the place known as "the silent treatment." It’s discouraging. But is it abusive? - Deliberately Evading as Punishment - If our partners deliberately evade our questions, that’s one form of the silent treatment known as -stonewalling. It's...
March 15, 2021
How Abusive Relationships Alter Your Brain
Those of us who have been marked by the scars of emotional and physical abuse in childhood or as adults know how deep the trauma can penetrate. Our bodies heal, we grow and we cast off many of the superficial appearances that marked us as victims, but the emotional aftershocks remain long afterwards. Since the early days of psychiatry, we’ve known that abuse can put sufferers at risk of depression,...
July 26, 2018