Gaslighting can wreak havoc on your personality - SCI-ART LAB2024-03-29T05:54:25Zhttps://kkartlab.in/forum/topics/gaslighting-can-wreak-havoc-on-your-personality?groupUrl=general-topics&xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=no72
Love-bombing is a form of…tag:kkartlab.in,2022-09-23:2816864:Comment:2438552022-09-23T05:57:17.054ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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<p><span>Love-bombing is a form of excessive romantic communication</span></p>
<p><span> The motivation for gaslighting appears related to coercive control tactics. Gaslighters who 're motivated by a desire to control their partners engage in a wider variety of coercive control tactics, including setting rules, verbal abuse, property damage and threats. Accusations of incompetence, characteristic of gaslighting, and attempts to isolate the survivor 're…</span></p>
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<p><span>Love-bombing is a form of excessive romantic communication</span></p>
<p><span> The motivation for gaslighting appears related to coercive control tactics. Gaslighters who 're motivated by a desire to control their partners engage in a wider variety of coercive control tactics, including setting rules, verbal abuse, property damage and threats. Accusations of incompetence, characteristic of gaslighting, and attempts to isolate the survivor 're common.</span></p>
<p><span>Isolation 's seen as an integral part of the controlling behavior, often beginning with negative opinions about members of survivors' friends and family. Isolating the survivor keep them from receiving advice about their partner's questionable behaviors, make the survivor more reliant on the gaslighter for social attention and may contribute to survivors' sense of "losing their grip" on reality.</span></p>
<p>Survivors reported frequent accusations of cognitive incompetence, mental instability or being "overly emotional," sometimes in the form of concern for survivors but more often framed as insults. Tactically, these directly challenge the survivors' self-knowledge and diminish their sense of reality.</p>
<p>Perpetrators also attempted to exert control by limiting survivors' ability to accomplish goals external to the relationship, such as pursuing school or career advancement, through constantly undermining<span> </span><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/tags/self-confidence/" rel="tag" class="textTag">self-confidence</a><span> </span>and self-esteem.</p>
<p>Survivors of gaslighting relationships reported a diminished sense of self, increased guardedness, and increased mistrust of others long after the relationship ended. Some participants reported that they had not recovered from their gaslighting relationships.</p>
<p><span>Willis Klein et al, A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships, </span><i>Personal Relationships</i><span> (2023). </span><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pere.12510" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOI: 10.1111/pere.12510</a></p>