Have you or has someone you love suffered from an emotionally abusive relationship?
Even if that relationship is now over, you may still be living with the long term effects of emotional abuse. The relief that comes of no longer being subject to abusive treatment doesn’t erase its impact on your psychological well-being.
A Canadian study involving 1,000 women aged 15 and up resulted in the following statistics:
- 35% of the women had experienced emotional abuse growing up
- 43% had suffered some form of abuse as children or adolescents
- 39% had experienced emotional abuse in a relationship within the past five years
Whatever you’ve been through with an abusive spouse, partner, relative, or friend, you have a right to call the abuse what it is, to fight for your independence, and to experience peace again.
And your awareness is the first step toward learning how to recover from emotional abuse.
In this article, we will cover all of the short and long-term effects of emotional abuse and actions you can take to heal.
