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To: No_Doll_i
Eh? That makes no sense. So the dude accused me of trying to make him seem crazy? Hmmmm...Don't see how he got that. Stupid maybe. Ignorant. Defeatist. Uninformed. Yes. But crazy?

I challenge the assertion in the strongest possible terms. :)

157 posted on 03/22/2018 10:30:56 PM PDT by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: bagster

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target’s belief.[1][2]

Instances may range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. The term owes its origin to the 1938 Patrick Hamilton play Gas Light and its 1940 and 1944 film adaptations. The term has been used in clinical and research literature,[3][4] as well as in political commentary


163 posted on 03/22/2018 10:34:19 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
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