num_pages: 304
description: Are You Being Gaslighted?Check for these telltale signs: 1. You constantly second-guess yourself.2. You wonder Am I being too sensitive? a dozen times a day.3. You wonder frequently if you are a good enough girlfriend/wife/employee/friend/daughter.4. You have trouble making simple decisions.5. You think twice before bringing up innocent topics of conversation.6. You frequently make excuses for your partners behavior to friends and family.Your husband crosses the line in his flirtations with another woman at a dinner party. When you confront him he asks you to stop being insecure and controlling. After a long argument you apologize for giving him a hard time.Your boss backed you on a project when you met privately in his office and you went full steam ahead. But at a large gathering of staffincluding yourshe suddenly changes his tune and publicly criticizes your poor judgment. When you tell him your concerns for how this will affect your authority he tells you that the project was ill-conceived and youll have to be more careful in the future. You begin to question your competence. Your mother belittles your clothes your job your friends and your boyfriend. But instead of fighting back as your friends encourage you to do you tell them that your mother is often right and that a mature person should be able to take a little criticism. If you think things like this cant happen to you think again. Gaslighting is when someone wants you to do what you know you shouldnt and to believe the unbelieveable. It can happen to you and it probably already has. Gaslighting is an insidious form of emotional abuse and manipulation that is difficult to recognize and even harder to break free from.
language: English
title: The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life
publisher: Harmony