Escape Abuse!

This article pertains mainly to teaching children healthy boundaries. However, this information can be applied to adults too, particularly adults who are targets of abuse or who are abusers. Because one of the things both targets of abuse and abusers must learn as adults that they didn’t learn as a child is how to set […]

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Here are some of the tactics abusers use to break you down and keep you there. How many do you recognize?
Verbal Assaults: Berating, belittling, criticizing, name calling, screaming, threatening, excessive blaming, and using sarcasm and humiliation. Blowing flaws out of proportion and making fun of you in front of others. Over time, this type […]

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This is likely a synopsis of tactics that abusers, sociopaths, and psychopaths (not to mention predatory corporations and governments) have learned to use very well. As unsettling as it is, these are the type  people we all have sometimes lived with, are related to,  have worked with, or may have as neighbors. Most of […]

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This is an excerpt from http://narc-attack.blogspot.com/ - which has writings from Kathy Krajco about the online book “What Makes Narcissists Tick” (available in its entirety here on EscapeAbuse). Kathy is very good at summarizing and clarifying the modus operandi of malignant narcissists. Why do I include so much information on EscapeAbuse about narcissists/sociopaths? […]

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the sky on cold lords over us
and your intent is obvious
previous, next
foreground, back
it’s all the same to you
sad
am I some demon with orange eyes
or are you so frightened
of yourself inside
that you need to
drown me in your mind
go ahead define me
stuff me in a frame
stuff me inside some crazy idea
of how someone else is to blame
my […]

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