This is How a Professional Counselor Describes Covert Emotional Abuse #narcissism #emotionalabuse

The more covert the abuse is, the more

difficult it is to

explain, difficult it is to describe,

the more difficult it is to perceive

from the outside that the other person

feels and and here comes sort of a a

long string of adjectives. that a person

feels

unseen, disregarded,

disqualified, unequal in

status. Um, demeaned, used,

um, felt as not a person in their own

right, but only an extension of the

other person, existing only for their

benefit or good. It is largely an

assault on personhood. It's an assault

on value and worth aimed at control of

another