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PTSD: a mental health issue developed after experiencing a life-threatening event, like combat, a disaster, an accident, or sexual assault.

Gaslighting is used by an abuser to gain more power by making the victim question their reality.

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A great many of us have - in one way or another - been traumatised somewhere in our past. Not only have we suffered greatly, we are likel...

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