October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
What is Psychological Abuse?
More recent research has defined Psychological Abuse as including a range of aversive behaviors that are intended to harm an individual through coercion, control, verbal abuse, monitoring, isolation, threatening, jealousy, humiliation, manipulation, treating one as inferior, creating a hostile environment, wounding a person regarding their sexuality and/or fidelity. Withholding from a partner emotionally and/or physically, and by engaging in sadistic acts. If you are in danger, please call the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (NCADV) -Violence Hotline -1-800-799-7233
