Verbal abusers can include husband, wife, partner, friends, family or work associates. They are people who persistently do any of these damaging or bullying things...
- Continue to make insulting comments about your clothes, appearance, friends, job etc., when it clearly offends you or after you have expressly asked them to stop
- Shout, yell or scream at you in a way that is alarming, upsetting or traumatic for you
- Swear at you, insult or sneer at you, repeatedly "rubbish" your words or actions.
- Use a tone of voice, facial expression or other body-language that "speaks down to you"
- Criticize you in a destructive, demeaning way which harms your self-esteem
- Constantly put you down - nothing you do will ever be good enough!
- Address or Label you negatively e.g. call you stupid, fat, lazy, call you "an idiot" etc
- Exaggerate, or constantly remind you, of your weaknesses, failings, past mistakes etc.
- Ignore you when speaking in a group, or take up an excessive share of attention, conversation or physical "space"
- Engage in destructive communications, actions or inactions, which "stab you in the back"
- Bully you, manipulate you, pressurize you, or encourage you to have feelings of guilt or inferiority.
- Say "poisoned" things that encourage you to feel guilty, hurt or traumatised.
- Lie to you, deceive you, or deprive you of ("hold back") information that you need.
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