I'm not the best at blogging, but for this, I will give it my best.
A new hashtag, started by @bad_dominicana (Twitter, Instagram), has started a powerful movement toward recognizing emotional abuse. Because....it IS abuse, every bit as much as physical abuse. It hurts, it causes physical illness, and it leads to the same untrusting relationships as physical abuse.
But it's invisible.
Just like mental illness.
How many people in recovery would be rich if they had $1 for every time they were told to "snap out of it"? "It's all in your head"? "You can choose to be happy"? Many.
How many victims of terrible atrocities are told they "brought it upon" themselves? 🌚
Emotional abuse SHOULD be recognized as abuse. Yet society continues to restrict mental health resources, and enable victim-blaming, and shame people into remaining in unsafe or unhealthy situations. Women, men, children, even animals! Anyone can be abused. Evil does not discriminate.
Just like women, men, children, and even animals can suffer with *invisible* illnesses. Depression. Anxiety. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Schizophrenia. Etc. Illnesses that can stem from abuse of any kind: physical, emotional, psychological, institutional....
The sooner society recognizes the impact of emotional abuse, the sooner we may prevent people from developing invisible illness as a result. Abuse is abuse, and it needs to end - at the societal level.
Like my Granny always said: "A stitch in time saves nine."
#MaybeHeDoesntHitYou 🌞
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