The 4 Stages of Gaslighting Nobody Warns You About
The word has been used so loosely it now means almost nothing — and that mistake protects the people actually doing it.Gaslighting isn't disagreement. It isn't someone lying to you once, or remembering an evening differently than you do. It's a sustained, deliberate attempt to make you distrust your own mind, and it runs in four stages: denial, isolation, reversal, dependency. By stage three, the target is usually defending the person harming them.This file covers where the term comes from — a 1938 play, and the mechanism hidden inside its plot — why it works best on self-reflective…
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