Are you experiencing coercive control in your marriage? It’s important to learn the signs and take steps to protect yourself.

A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to ...

Physical and verbal abuse during childhood were each associated with a greater than 50% increase in likelihood of poor mental health during adulthood, with exposure to both types of abuse compounding ...

Articles about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often focus on physical violence. But emotional abuse can also cause PTSD. Some research suggests it may be as harmful as, or even more harmful ...

When you hear the word "abuse," some form of physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse may come to mind. But people may not think about emotional abuse. This kind of abuse can be more subtle to ...

What begins as a partnership built on love, trust, and mutual respect can sometimes deteriorate into a relationship marked by control, manipulation, and fear. This transformation rarely happens ...

It's *not* your fault—here's how to heal Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Emotional abuse is a serious problem in some ...

Abuse exists on a spectrum, from relatively mild and infrequent to severe, often, and potentially life threatening. The most severe abuse does not have to be physical, but abuse may escalate to ...

Did you or a close friend have a parent who frequently yelled or used threatening language when you were a child? For people who experience it, even from nonparental caregivers or teachers, the ...

Experiencing childhood verbal abuse shows a similar impact to adult mental health as physical abuse, suggests a large intergenerational study, published in the open access journal BMJ Open. While ...

Therapists, like me, want their clients to know how to recognize abuse because abuse can cause trauma, which may lead to anxiety, depression, PTSD, and a variety of irrational beliefs. Any of these ...