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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-05-14 03:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #3419 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3419 ⌋

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[Shingeki no Kyojin]


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["Seitenkango, Shinyuu to" by Eroe]
















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Re: Whats Gaslighting?

(Anonymous) 2016-05-14 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It can make it really hard to believe yourself.

It was something my mom did to our family a lot growing up and it fucks with your mind. It took years of therapy and cutting off a lot of communication with her for me to really start to be able to trust my own thoughts and perception again.

I would constantly be SURE something happened one way, but she would be so passionate about how her version of it and so genuinely hurt by her own daughter "calling her a liar" and guilt trip me until I felt like an awful child because surely she wouldn't be that upset unless she really truly remembered it that way so how dare I try to press my own, naive version onto her.

I know it sounds like it should be easy to just ignore, but when you're in that environment for any decent amount of time, especially if it's someone you depend on emotionally or financially, it's really hard to combat.

Re: Whats Gaslighting?

[personal profile] lady_dragoon 2016-05-15 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
This was the main reason I started keeping a diary as a kid. I wrote down things my mother said and did as soon as I could when they happened, so when she later claimed she'd "never done that" or "never said that" I had a way for me to confirm my own memories.