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'''Gaslighting''', according to the National Domestic Abuse Hotline, is a form a emotional abuse whereby someone distorts facts, evidence, and memories in order to get the victim to question their own instincts, feelings, and sanity to the point where the victim no longer trusts themselves.<ref>https://www.thehotline.org/2014/05/29/what-is-gaslighting/</ref> It is a form of confidence erosion that empowers the abuser and disempowers the victim. The victim may become actually mentally unwell due to the abuser, further empowering the abuser to gaslight more, or even commit long-term psychiatric abuse against the victim. | '''Gaslighting''', according to the National Domestic Abuse Hotline, is a form a emotional abuse whereby someone distorts facts, evidence, and memories in order to get the victim to question their own instincts, feelings, and sanity to the point where the victim no longer trusts themselves.<ref>https://www.thehotline.org/2014/05/29/what-is-gaslighting/</ref> It is a form of confidence erosion that empowers the abuser and disempowers the victim. The victim may become actually mentally unwell due to the abuser, further empowering the abuser to gaslight more, or even commit long-term psychiatric abuse against the victim. | ||
Notable institutionalized forms of gaslighting occur through [[psychiatry]] and [[CBT]] (DBT etc). Gaslighting also occurs a lot by politicians and political pundits to the public. | Notable institutionalized forms of gaslighting occur through [[psychiatry]] and [[CBT]] (DBT etc). Gaslighting also occurs a lot by politicians and political pundits to the public. With respect to incels, the media and [[feminist]]s will frequently tell incels that they are imagining the global rise in sexlessness, that they are also imagining the dating difficulties they are going through, and that they are imagining it causing them suffering. In other words, gaslighting. | ||
==Techniques of gaslighters== | ==Techniques of gaslighters== | ||