Does the silent treatment amount to emotional abuse and then go on to physical abuse?
Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at
12:08 am
Is it true that giving someone the silent treatment amounts to emotional torture if done after a very long and extended period of years and also to give them the silent treatment is like ostrocizing someone? Because then ostricizing is like causing somebody pain and physical pain that is, because it affects a part of the brain that detects pain and therefore it is goes on to be like physical abuse. Anybody ever heard this and can agree with a story? Thanks!
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"The Silent Treatment", when prolonged is most definitely Emotional Abuse!
You do feel pain, and you do feel abandoned, depressed, and other negative emotions!
But it is not Physical Abuse.
Just examine the definitions of both kinds of abuse. The answer is there
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yes it is very very true. the brain does detect pain but it doesn’t go straight to physical abuse.
You can change the way you treat people,but you can,t change the way people treat you. You can however tell that person that you do not approve of the silent treatment, They either start talking, share the problem with you so you can solve the problem together, or seek help them self .I they don,t well you will then have to leave that person to live their own life with out you in it. because that behaviour you cannot live with all your life.This is childish and emotional abuse . When your car starts leaking oil ,you either fix it right away or the problem will get worst. Hope this helps good luck.
No it isn’t physical sorry.
Physical is physical. Use a dictionary next time.
It doesn’t matter how bad you think it is it will never qualify as physical pain. It doesn’t need to be physical pain for it to take a toll on a person. Some say emotional pain or verbal abuse is worse.
it’s just emotional abuse that is causing you pain. No matter what your emotions CAN cause you pain… so yeah just emotional…
do you mean start developing physical symptons-? i guess that makes sense.
It’s not as simple as that. Physical abuse is when someone physically hurts you…… hit, kick, push… causing physical injury and pain. Emotional abuse causes emotional pain and suffering, the two can not be confused for eachother. Emotional abuse is also very subjective. Take for example me and my mother….. my mother is manipulative, mean, nasty, etc….. I have Bipolar Disorder and PTSD, being around her always triggers severe emotional breakdowns for me….. I had talked to her many time but she won’t change the way she treats me so I stopped talking to her and moved to another state….. So who is abusing who…………. I have done nothing to her except remove myself from her abuse but she has the attitude that I am the one abusing her by cutting her out of my life and that’s how she has presented it to her family, none of who will speak to me anymore…………. Am I giving my mother the "silent treatment"? Yes, so to speak, but it’s done in defense of my own sanity and as a defense against her emotional abuse that she has inflicted on me since I was a child………….