The effects of physical abuse can be seen easily, but
effects of emotional abuse cannot be spot easily. Emotional abuse doesn’t
affect person physically but psychologically. The victim of emotionally abusive
person doesn’t feel comfortable in his/her work, school and other areas of
life. For married couples, emotional abuse also affects their sex life.
Most of the victims of emotional abuse don’t complain
about the abuse and always blame themselves. Victims mostly said that it was
just ‘saying of words’ they didn’t get hit by their partner. As a result there
could be very severe effects on a person.
Short-Term Effects of Emotional Abuse
Most of the times emotionally abusive couple finds
themselves in a situation about which they doesn’t know, how this situation
arise. They get themselves confusing about the situation and questioning about
it how it rises.
The short effect of emotional abuse is that most of
time victims remain confusing and surprising about things. They may face memory
issues as they find it difficult to recall what actually happens. Victim may
blame themselves and feel guilty.
Sometimes victim also show aggression to
defend them from getting abused. The lack of confidence is also due to
emotional abuse, victim started to avoid eye contact. Victim of emotional abuse
thinks he/she is so weak and always thinks they can’t win anything. They feel
that they controlled by other persons and they can’t act according to their
will.
Long-Term Effects of Emotional Abuse
The long term effect of emotional abuse is in a way
that victim lose his/her self-esteem. Victims feel that they are dependent on
their partners and are not worthy of non-abusive relation. They can’t leave
their partners and started to believe that all the things which are said by
their partner about them are right.
The effect of emotional abuse is that the victim
started to feel so much depressed. He/she feels himself/herself as a low
worthy. Victims also become emotionally in-stable. Sleeplessness is also a
result of emotional abuse and victim feels physical pain without any cause.
Victims also started to have trust issues and they started to think about
suicide and most of the time they also attempt to do so.
