Verbal abuse is indirect. It's words spoken through another, a confrontation that takes place outside of face-to-face.
Using third parties as proxies to manipulate, control, and monitor an abused partner, especially during the process of separation, has been referred to as indirect abuse (Hayes, 2012).
Verbal abuse involves using words to name call, bully, demean, frighten, intimidate, or control another person. This can include overt verbal abuse such as yelling, screaming, or swearing.
It is a type of abuse undertaken through body language instead of communication that has equally harmful effects. The consequences can include mental and physical illness. It can also hamper one's career.
Verbal abuse includes belittling, name-calling, degrading, shaming, ridiculing, singling out a child to criticize or punish, and humiliating a child in public.
Examples of non-verbal harassment include: looking a person up and down ('elevator eyes'), following or stalking someone, using sexually suggestive visuals, making sexual gestures with the hands or through body movements, using facial expressions such as winking, throwing kisses, or licking lips.
Verbal abuse is the most common form of emotional abuse, but it's often unrecognized, because it may be subtle and insidious. It may be said in a loving, quiet voice, or be indirect—or even concealed as a joke. Whether disguised as play or jokes, sarcasm or teasing that is hurtful is abusive.
Insults: Verbal abuse like name-calling, harsh criticism, and other insults are ways for those with narcissistic personality disorder to chip away at a victim's self-esteem. Abusers will often try to disguise their behaviors as sarcasm or jokes.
The psychological effects of verbal abuse include: fear and anxiety, depression, stress and PTSD, intrusive memories, memory gap disorders, sleep or eating problems, hyper-vigilance and exaggerated startle responses, irritability, anger issues, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, self-harm, and assaultive behaviors.
Narcissistic abuse occurs when a narcissist progressively manipulates and mistreats people to gain control over them, creating a toxic environment full of emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, or physical harm.
Childhood maltreatment includes direct forms (e.g., physical, sexual) as well as indirect forms of abuse (e.g., neglect, exposure to domestic violence), and is a prevalent issue that is experienced by many children across North America (Sedlak et al., 2010).
This includes social problems like racism, sexism, heterosexism, xenophobia and even elitism. With this kind of violence there is no specific person who can be held accountable for the harm done, but rather, the problem lies in the entire society and the beliefs that the society holds.
These two types differ in their forms of production: while indirect violence is unilat- erally perpetrated by an armed group, direct violence is jointly produced by an armed group and civilians, and it hinges on local collaboration.
Insults and name-calling are common emotional abuse tactics. Abusive people can make nasty comments or use hurtful nicknames. When this behavior is confronted, the abuser often insists that they were being sarcastic or just making jokes. They may even belittle you for being so sensitive and taking offense.
The cycle of abuse is made up of four stages. These stages include the building of tension, the abuse incident, the reconciliation, and a period of calm.
Emotional abuse can be a form of psychological trauma that can have a similar impact on the nervous system as physical trauma.
Abuse means treating someone with violence, disrespect, cruelty, harm, or force. When someone treats their partner in any of these ways, it's called an abusive relationship. Abuse in a relationship can be physical, sexual, or emotional. Or it could be all of these.
Verbal abuse is the harmful use of language to control, intimidate or hurt someone. It can include behaviour such as name-calling, belittling, or using controlling or threatening language.
Nonverbal behaviors: If somebody glares, audibly sighs, or rolls their eyes, but vehemently denies they are doing these things, or denies that these behaviors have any meaning behind them, they may be part of a gaslighting pattern.
Posture, facial expressions, and eye contact are examples of nonverbal messages. We all use these cues in daily conversation, even involuntarily. Nonverbal communication also involves the way we present ourselves to others.