Watch out for those few threads that are full of gaslighting...

It's not really relevant. The key is to keep suggesting diagnoses so that the issue of illness remains 'live.' The purpose of psychology to the gaslighter is to manipulate, so the point of diagnosis is utterly lost here. Even speaking about it in a general moral sense is open to manipulation, as there is a whole rhetoric of false moral outrage, already perfected by the blackmailer.

Look: what you do for a living is who you are. You're obviously not ashamed, and your choice of career predates any moral goals you'd like to falsely associate with it. A psychologist is primarily--get that? PRIMARILY--interested in the mental health of their patients, and as a result, doesn't use terms like addiction in a context which effectively turns it into a moral accusation. Just come out and say 'vice' or 'sin,' and watch as people beat a path for the exits.

It's more than kind of sad on the level of the flunky. But should a person really feel sorry for them when even a fuzzy picture forms in their mind of the sort of person who would design their objectives for them? Someone who studies the mentally ill for the purposes of exacerbating mental illness rather than curing it? There's something that breaches the designation 'sick' here and goes to the level of 'evil'...not that you'll publicly use such language, mind you.

Emotional vampires.

You guys specialize in projection. I'd like to see you write individual articles separated from one another.

Thanks for the link curry...yes ignoring is the best option here. That's why I said move on to happier threads lol

Be positive in life and positive things will come to you :)

Yes sex addicts will groom people around them sexually.
I agree, they subconsciously manipulate.

In my experience there's always been an addiction. Unlike others who use substances to cope, like over-eating or self harm.

Yes, I know first hand, he tried to kill me when I cut off his supply. And no one would believe it.

I survived too, sadly many don't

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Real gas lighting can be very subtle
Often it is accommodated by ridicule, defamation and libel, very commonly used in politics, it's basically legal abuse.

Through the different types of media it can reach billions of people.
And make Armageddon look like a Daft fairytale told to children.

I could go on, but the most common abuse is the Stockholm syndrome where the victim/victims after severe abuse are lulled into a submissive behavior where the victim becomes emotionally dependant on the abuser, the abuser uses the good cop bad cop mentality, it also works on groups of people from a couple to millions.

The indoctrinated victim finds that to avoid the abuse it simply becomes submissive and follows the orders of the abuser or even protects the abuser, the unbroken victims sees this and more becomes submissive to avoid further abuse.

Look I am not a psychiatrist...although I do study many subjects and this has been one of them. I want the gaslighter to get help and stop doing it but it seems very hard for them to do. They need to get to the root of the problem and you are not doing that on GLP ya know? lol

I can't find the article but sociopaths and narcissists are classic gaslighters. I would have to say that bipolar disorder has a lot to do with it as well...because sociopaths and narcissists can have biploar traits...

I survived too, sadly many don't

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I have to go but thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to the thread. There is some great information here for anyone who wants to learn more.

You have a lot of knowledge about this subject. Thank you. There are also non drug users who just use gaslighting as a straight manipulation technique. Some don't even realize they are doing it. Some can only feel whole doing it and can't seem to stop. No matter what you show them. However they learned how to do this as a very young child.

Why are you here now posting? Can a gaslighter be benevolent?

I hate this new "gaslighting" term and refuse to understand it or use it. I've been around the block more than enough to know when someone is full of shit, which I take it to mean......

The morality of gaslighting? There is no right or wrong...only wrong because it is classic psychological manipulation. Which I would agree that it is connected to some sort of mental illness such as depressive bipolar disorder. I have to find that article I was reading. Hold on...

Are gaslighters aware of what they do?

Gaslighting is a pattern of manipulation tactics. The goal is to make the victim or victims question their own reality and depend on the gaslighter.

Some gaslighters may have learned it from others—in many cases, their own parents. If a parent lives with addiction or other mental health issues, gaslighting may be used to manipulate a child.

The ones who have pages and pages of gaslighting...they know what they do...but they are sick.

You don't want to even be a part of those threads. There are mentally unstable people controlling those threads and the only way they know how to communicate is by gaslighting whoever comes into their thread.

The OP's of these types of threads are ALWAYS the victims. Yet they make their own hell.

Just wanted to put it out there. Don't fall for their "oh woe is me" or "poor me" act. They will pull you right down into their psychosis with them. Just move on to happier threads :)

Public service announcement by Dreamer lol

Would you post a link to one of those threads so we know exactly what you mean?

Is that igniting a poot with lighter?

Hey you! Hope you're well.




LMAO, I see you're still smashing cakes in people's faces. Good good, always entertained.

Psychopaths and narcissists are naturally good at getting people to gaslight others for them.

OP give it a rest already. You're one of the 50 or so regulars that routinely get one on another count to red and green and play your mental happy fun time games.

I hate this new "gaslighting" term and refuse to understand it or use it. I've been around the block more than enough to know when someone is full of shit, which I take it to mean......

gaslighters are just a subset of shit sacks, it's redundant unless you wish to specify a particular breed of shit sacker.

carry on

Could be a two way street. You may just be referring to one taking advantage of another w\ manipulation. Of course it is wrong, but there are many factors and few are above\ as advanced to NEVER taking advantage.

For 'gaslighting' that person would be closer to, or an actual, sociopath.