When I say the word gaslighting, I’m fairly sure most people well versed on narcissism immediately have the association with the movie from which it was named. The phenomenon ‘gaslighting’ is a well-known topic to most people who have researched narcissism in great depth, and most of those people are the survivors of narcissistic abuse. But, how to explain this, when it is happening to you to someone else, who has never experienced this? How do you get over to a rational and mature person who would not engage in gaslighting, to begin with, what is happening, or what did happen to you?

By its very nature, it is one of the most insidious ways to emotionally and mentally abuse someone. By design gaslighting is made to make you ‘seem’ crazy to the average person around you, and sho...

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