Emotional vampires are like their monster counterparts, they drain your life away. But it’s not blood they’re after, it’s the life essence of others that feeds them. I was excited about writing this piece, and yes, I had some pretty interesting angles. But when I started to study the subject…
Silent treatment abuse is real and can be very damaging. Read on to learn what happens when silent treatment becomes an abuse. Have you ever been on the receiving end of silent treatment? If so, you will know how damaging and upsetting it can be. For people that prefer to…
A guilt trip is a feeling of guilt which has been induced on purpose by a third party. Typically, a guilt trip is used to manipulate a person into doing something they would not normally consider doing. There are, of course, different scales of guilt tripping someone. A mother might…
Could dissociative identity disorder be connected to astral projection? Are we leaving our bodies and experiencing possession? I would like to approach my topic from three directions and see if they meet in the middle. Would you like to take the journey with me? When I speak of making connections,…
Emotional abuse takes its toll on victims in such a way that scars can be seen decades later. What we fail to notice are the superpowers they gain from the battles. I guess it doesn't make sense, for victims of emotional abuse to have positive qualities, considering the mental trauma…
Hear the term brainwashing and you might think of government agents ‘turning’ unwilling spies against their own countries, or cult leaders using mind control to manipulate their followers. You might even go so far as to think of the term brainwashing in relation to propaganda spread during the First and…
Describing someone as having suffered through emotional neglect invokes the image of someone who is weak, a victim. Yet in reality, those who have suffered from emotional neglect have a few surprising talents and strengths hidden up their sleeve that many don’t expect. It is the slight silver lining that…
As it seems, child neglect causes irreparable damage to the brain. To a layperson, there is one big difference between the two brains in the image above, and that is size. Without knowing who they belong to we might surmise that they are of different ages, and that accounts for…
