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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Apr 11, 2024 ^^
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Setting boundaries don't always help, unfortunately. Some gaslighters seem to take it as 'encouragement' to push at those boundaries, and that is where they will really start to devalue your perception. If anything, in some cases setting boundaries can show them they have an effect, where your 'weaknesses' are, and motivate them to keep going. As much as I despise it, everything they do is strategic, so you need to have a counter strategy for being around them. Hold your cards as close as you can, bluff if you can be convincing enough, and try to make them show their hand. Use their own strategy agains them. Or at the very least understand it, so you can know how not to trigger it, for your own safety.
The trick about writing it down is very helpful in remembering how things actually happened. And the more you read and remember, the easier it will be to trust your own perception. Because that is really the main goal when dealing with a gaslighter. If you are not constantly scrambling to figure out what actually happened, you can see through their games, and see what they are really doing. That means you spend less mental (and physical) energy on confusion, and you can spend more on figuring out how to deal with them; every gaslighter is different.
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Gaslighting is closer to brainwashing than it is to lying. Although, lying is a necessary part of it.
The difference is the intention.
There is a huge difference between lying to protect someone's feelings and lying to convince someone that a certain thing happened when it did not, or vice versa. Especially if the goal is to make that someone believe that they are at fault for the phantom event or for convincing that someone the non-existence of one.
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I knew someone who had such a twisted perception of the real world that they formed a group of people who felt the same way to feel safer, and anyone who told them reasonable truths were allegedly gaslighting them. They were all good people at the heart. I frequently insisted that anything I said was just to try and help, or even ask for help, only to be hurt and bullied for trying to do the right thing. When I got away from that group and spent more time around reasonable people, suddenly I realized I was being gaslit, not them.
If you believe me, I am the victim. If you don't, I did the gaslighting. The entire interaction hinges on an unbiased third-party, which almost never exists because of the way group dynamics work and tribalism.
A lot of people who do the gaslighting genuinely think they are the ones being gaslit. This video, I think, dangerously under-explores the depth of what gaslighting is and where it comes from. All of us have done the gaslighting thinking we were doing the right thing, it isn't about being a gaslighter or not. It's about having warped perception, which this video can create if you follow it explicitly.
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@Psych2go
3 weeks ago
Many of you connected with our video on gaslighting https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FISZshe9L3s. In the comments, some viewers shared experiences of being told they're "too sensitive." This video aims to empower you by showing how these comments might be gaslighting, not a reflection of you being overly emotional. Support our work by commenting and sharing this video to help someone out in similar situation.
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