Saturday, March 5, 2016

Accessing Seattle Emotional Abuse Counseling

By Raymond Hughes


You don't have to be physically hurt to feel abused. Behavior that makes another individual feel powerless, worthless, angry, or afraid, may be legitimately described as abusive. If you are feeling anxious or depressed, isolated from friends and family, or if you feel agitated or fearful, you may be suffering from emotionally abusive behavior. It may be time for you to seek emotional abuse counseling.

It's not always obvious that you are suffering from emotional mistreatment. It is not easy to seek advice or help when you begin to realize what is happening. You may feel deeply attached to the person, even though you are constantly down in the dumps. Maybe you feel like it is your fault, or that they will eventually snap out of it. You constantly make excuses for them.

Another stumbling block to recovery is your belief that you will not be able to manage without your abuser. Low self-esteem, brought about as the result of your ill treatment, may make you think nobody else will have you. Your abuser may have used threats of abuse, rather than actual physical beatings, to manipulate you. This may lead you to be afraid they will come after you and cause you pain, or even kill you, if you decide to leave them.

People who display abusive behavior should not necessarily be demonized. The reasons for their actions are complex. Often, the abuser has been abused by someone in their childhood, adolescence or even later. Someone who has been in the victim of a prior abusive relationship may find it difficult to process their feelings and end up blaming a family member, close friend, or partner for the problems resulting from these feelings. They, too, may benefit from seeing a counselor.

Therapy may help your abusive partner to realize the strong, negative effect their behavior has had on you. If they can empathize, if they have a conscience, therapy can work. On the other hand, there is a group of people who have no conscience or empathy. They may be psychopaths or sociopaths, and they make up approximately one per cent of the general population.

Such individuals are manipulative, self-centered and dishonest. A small subset of this population provides fodder for the writers of books, movies and television shows about serial killers. Your abuser may fall within this subset of people. If you think they are, then your best course of action might be to up sticks and move on to a new life elsewhere, maybe even across the country.

Individuals with psychopathic tendencies are hard to spot because they are so good at what they do. They are glib and charming, and can maintain the facade of being a great friend, lover or employee; that is, until they get what they want from their victim and move on.

For someone looking to reinvent themselves and start a new life, they could do little better than to start again in Seattle, Washington. Situated on Puget sound on America's Pacific coast, there is access to endless mountain scenery, waterways and forests that remain green all year round. The city has a bustling cultural and social scene and a thriving economy.




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