YouTube Videos On Abuse

Hearing what other people have to say about abuse can help you to recognize and deal with verbal and other forms of abuse. Watching these agencies and courageous women talk of abuse and how they have survived it may be just what you need.

Identifying Verbal Abuse Pt 1

YouTube Featured Comment: "I love Patricia Evans's books, they have helped me a LOT! A comment about "withholding." I have wondered if I was also abusive because I "withheld" when my angry, hostile, blaming & defining partner kept provoking me. If I opened my mouth I would get abused more. I know now that abuse is silencing, it seeks to erase you & turn you into a controllable puppet. RESISTING abuse by refusing to be manipulated was a healthy response, but only if I followed thru & ended the relationship, which I did."

Identifying Verbal Abuse Pt 2

YouTube Featured Comment: "Don't you love it when they call the police on you and accuse YOU of abusing THEM? Especially when they are at least twice your size . . . so bizarre."

Oprah.com Abuse Videos

Emotional Abuse: Lies Abusers Tell

YouTube Featured Comment: "'Many verbal abusers are delightful charming men in public. They treat their spouse or girlfriend with such respect that people often think they are the perfect couple. They save their cruelty for a private audience of one.' Ain't that the truth."

Signs of Emotional Abuse

YouTube Featured Comment: "I have read almost every book on the subject of emotional abuse. According to these authors, licensed therapists to PhDs, this abuse is predominantly male on female. It can happen anywhere there is a inequality of balance of power. It's so important for women to understand what this is, until it has a name it is only 'rudeness' or 'psychosis' or 'socially ineptness,' until you realize it's actually 'abuse' it has no ability to be fully understood. Thank you for posting this video."