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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 3y ago
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- KWR08KWR08
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Gaslighting is basically when one tries to convince you of a thing or a situation didn’t happen, trying to make you believe something that didn’t happen. So for example if someone said something to you with the intent to hurt you and they know they did but they try to convince you that it wasn’t their intention or that your being sensitive or misinterpreted what they said, therefore making you question what happened. I hope that helped!
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- Lms526Lms526
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Another example is someone will say something hurtful. When you call them on it, they will say something like "You are taking this way too personally" or "You are way too sensitive and are just overreacting." They will try to convince that the problem is your reaction not the hurtful thing they said.
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- KWR08KWR08
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Omg yes people do it to me all the time and it pisses me off 💀
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- Thinking_AddictThinking_Addict
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I think of gaslighting as the way a perpetrator tries to convince a victim that they are innocent and it is the victim that has done something wrong. It is often used in abusive relationships. For instance, Person A confronts Person B about their slow or lack of responsiveness to text messages. Person B, however, responds by gaslighting Person A, saying it is actually Person A who is not slow in response or not responsive enough. If Person A is vulnerable, they may believe this gaslighting and start blaming themselves.
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- Jaxiju
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Trigger warning!!! I’m suffering from false memory OCD and I started to feel better, let the thoughts come and go, started to think more rational. Then I remembered a post about false memory on another platform by a woman. The issue was “why does guilt feel so real in terms of false memory?” And someone said: “I have not found feelings to be false, They are the feed back for your conscious and subconscious level. I see this as a way to discount something that someone thinks is not wanted to be seen. If a person feels a certain way it needs to be honored. Someone else may think it is false, if that person does not want to address the issues behind the feelings from their fear of having to look at themselves honestly. I would call it a form of gas lighting. If you feel it is real. Find the root cause in hypnotherapy or regression counseling to heal the source and move on into being present in your life.” Now I’m start to obsess again about my thoughts, only because I remembered this post! What do you guys think? 😓
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- GittyKitty
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Has anyone been in a situation where someone triggered your OCD to mess with you? What did you do?
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- Becky B.
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Gaslighting
I have a family member who has a mental health degree but seems to use their knowledge to label all of our relatives as narcissistic or as having other negative psychological traits. This usually happens whenever someone disagrees with her. Recently, she told me that if I feel guilty about a recent argument we had, it's not her problem that I haven't appropriately dealt with my OCD. I feel like this was a strategy to get under my skin and to use my OCD against me, because this relative knows how important my recovery has been to me. Has anyone else here experienced this type of gaslighting (disregarding your feelings or opinions based in your OCD) & how have you handled it, whilst maintaining fidelity to ERP?
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