NAME CALLING AND MIND CONTROL: The effects of verbal abuse
The abuser trys to define the victim’s reality and feelings about herself.
The Perpetrators often use VOICES technology to apply Verbal Abuse techniques on targets.
Verbal aggression, defined as an attack on another's self-concept, takes many forms, comments like "you're stupid" or "you're lazy" are examples of verbal aggression. But sarcasm and teasing can also be forms of verbal aggression.
The stress caused by verbal aggression can also make a person physically ill, stress, has long been known to weaken people's immune systems. "If you're parents abuse you, the potential exists for you to form physical ailments." And "If you think the world is a hostile place, you're going to start acting that way !!!
It is known that any negative label or insult has the potential to hurt a child's feelings. Children who are frequently insulted by their siblings often remember the experience with pain even in adulthood. Children who have been insulted by their parents (i.e. being called "stupid," "careless," "sloppy," bad" etc.) also often remember the pain throughout adulthood.
However, remembered pain is not the worse consequence of name-calling. Far worse is the impact name-calling can have on personality development. Even fully grown adults who are subjected to regular insults (verbal abuse) are eventually affected by it: they come to feel less adequate, less competent and less loveable the more they experience being insulted. This effect is much much more powerful in childhood when a youngster's sense of self is not yet fully formed. At this point, being called names can leave the child truly believing that he or she is damaged, worthless, useless, bad and defective, as well as unlovable. Once a child entertains such notions about him/herself, the child tends to act in ways that are consistent with that poor self-image. So a child who is regularly called "stupid" for example, comes to believe that he can't do things like other people and then he stops trying to succeed. The label can be crippling. Of course the negative labels used regularly by parents tend to be much more damaging than those used only by siblings, but the effects of sibling-abuse must not be underestimated.
I thank name calling is a importent part of what the perps do to control who we become. The victim gradually loses self-esteem and confidence without realizing it. And is also likely to becomes more verbal and a abuser himself.
Related links
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" is an old saying that one University researcher has found to be false. MDO - U researcher speaks out on verbal abuse - 07/03/1996
Verbal Abuse: The effects of verbal abuse
http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1996/07/03/news/verbal/
Name Calling Emotional Abuse: The Effects on Children -- Pediatric Advisor
The Perpetrators often use VOICES technology to apply Verbal Abuse techniques on targets.
Verbal aggression, defined as an attack on another's self-concept, takes many forms, comments like "you're stupid" or "you're lazy" are examples of verbal aggression. But sarcasm and teasing can also be forms of verbal aggression.
The stress caused by verbal aggression can also make a person physically ill, stress, has long been known to weaken people's immune systems. "If you're parents abuse you, the potential exists for you to form physical ailments." And "If you think the world is a hostile place, you're going to start acting that way !!!
It is known that any negative label or insult has the potential to hurt a child's feelings. Children who are frequently insulted by their siblings often remember the experience with pain even in adulthood. Children who have been insulted by their parents (i.e. being called "stupid," "careless," "sloppy," bad" etc.) also often remember the pain throughout adulthood.
However, remembered pain is not the worse consequence of name-calling. Far worse is the impact name-calling can have on personality development. Even fully grown adults who are subjected to regular insults (verbal abuse) are eventually affected by it: they come to feel less adequate, less competent and less loveable the more they experience being insulted. This effect is much much more powerful in childhood when a youngster's sense of self is not yet fully formed. At this point, being called names can leave the child truly believing that he or she is damaged, worthless, useless, bad and defective, as well as unlovable. Once a child entertains such notions about him/herself, the child tends to act in ways that are consistent with that poor self-image. So a child who is regularly called "stupid" for example, comes to believe that he can't do things like other people and then he stops trying to succeed. The label can be crippling. Of course the negative labels used regularly by parents tend to be much more damaging than those used only by siblings, but the effects of sibling-abuse must not be underestimated.
I thank name calling is a importent part of what the perps do to control who we become. The victim gradually loses self-esteem and confidence without realizing it. And is also likely to becomes more verbal and a abuser himself.
Related links
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" is an old saying that one University researcher has found to be false. MDO - U researcher speaks out on verbal abuse - 07/03/1996
Verbal Abuse: The effects of verbal abuse
http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1996/07/03/news/verbal/
Name Calling Emotional Abuse: The Effects on Children -- Pediatric Advisor
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