What is Covert Emotional Abuse ? | Dr. David Hawkins

Emotional Abuse is a rampant problem both nationally and globally. With the story of Jennifer Willoughby, along other brave women sharing their stories, the topic of emotional abuse in marriage is coming to light and we have an opportunity to help couples end these cycles. The "And So I Stayed" story that Jennifer Willoughby shared is all too common and we desire to see both victims and abusers find the help they need.

Dr. Hawkins and his team of experts offer education and professional training as well as treatment for narcissistic and emotional abuse.

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The internet is inundated with hyperbole and misinformation about narcissism, leaving many people confused and hopeless. Get the facts about narcissism and emotional abuse from someone who has been researching, writing about and treating narcissism and emotional abuse for over a decade.

Dr. Hawkins is a best-selling author and clinical psychologist with over three decades of experience helping people break unhealthy patterns and build healthier relationships. He is the founder and director of the Marriage Recovery Center and the Emotional Abuse Institute which offers education, training and counseling for people who want to break free of, and heal from, emotional abuse.

Whether the perpetrator of the abuse is your spouse, partner, parent, boss, friend or family member, we offer practical advice for anyone trapped in a toxic, destructive relationship. In addition to narcissism & emotional abuse, topics include covert, reactive, spiritual, secondary, relationship trauma and more.

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[isaaceric]

He doesn't believe he is driving me crazy loosing my soul

[kjtamf]

I seriously think this profession & advise, is so under acknowledged, your defo key workers, and essential.

You don’t realise how many vunerble people you heal & restore from your words & education on toxic people & relationships
just want to thank you for making videos that really heal & save lives
instead of calling for mental health support & not having the words or vocabulary to explain what I’m going through or feeling
And being labellled from my experience that I can’t find words for.

I now come to these amazing professionals who have knowledge on toxic people, & they explain everything I can’t find the words for or don’t understand about my situation or problem
I just want you to know how many lives you save, just by understanding, and making these soul saving videos

God bless you doctor xx

[shorner]

But thanks for carrying on the fight brother. Stay blessed.

[beetee]

I've recently subscribed & am finding support watching your vids on emotional abuse, after just recently ending a severely abusive relationship. It is far more detrimental then any other type of abuse, I feel. The psychological damage it causes is soul crushing. Thank you for opening up your new videos so we can comment. Thank you for your encouraging insight

[Transpersonals]

2 nervous breakdowns by the age of 41 and by the grace of God, literally, I am beginning to heal and grow up. Holy crap you are not wrong my friend, this is an epidemic. God bless.

[doviejames]

Women do this too. Maybe not nearly as often, I have no idea about that but it happens and it happened to me. It is brutal, a drip feed of toxins that seem uncannily calibrated to your tolerance.

[shorner]

Thank you for explaining it. It does erode it... but it's the circle it's both the cause and effect for the change in personality like COMPLETE CHANGE

[shorner]

As well as their direct correlation to depression and their seems to be a pretty big correlation

[ThePowerAndControlWheel]

Pleeeeaaaassseee stop being gender-specific, it's exhausting and completely leaves us once again and again and again not being validated. I tell you right now .. we matter too .. and I tell you, I would place all my pay cheques on there being as many men being emotionally abused. Yes, this is horrific, so please can you do your work to recognise and promote this as being a problem men face also, and we lose everything, even our children .. why, because we are men, and the law leans towards women, and men are typically viewed as the aggressor .. well, in my experience twice (actually I also saw my mum doing it to two husbands) and the experience of several of my male friends, men do not get the support that we desperately need. It absolutely grates inside of me how you talk of 'women', 'come on, lets help women' etc. I am not minimising abuse on women, not in the slightest .. abuse of any kind is terrible, and particularly covert coercive control .. I am saying that if you are really genuine about promoting support for people who are being or who have been emotionally abused, please stop being gender-specific. Thank you!

[alaysiakayebutler]

It's an epidemic that's gender inclusive; it's any partner with empathy; attacked, undermined by narcissistic bullies

[GUITARTIME]

The abuse can be perpetrated from either gender.

[tobeytristan]

I'm recovering from covert emotional abuse, made the Scapegoat among my 4 siblings...

[Uhlersoth]

I'm not in a relationship, but this sounds similar to how my parents treat me.

[shorner]

That was done in a controlled study by dr. Baccus. First. He was the first one to touch on broach the subject of suggestive speech as a form of abuse rather....and then next about more advanced methods coined during mk ultra like false flagging, sonning, and punning, getting one in, nunning

[A.JayWeber]

Why aren't men equally addressed equally in every video?

[b.sanders]

Husband claimes he never hears what i am saying and says what...or excuse me i did not hear you. Either he claims to be reading or he is sitting under the t.v. and can not hear.

This has become a daily pattern all the time also he can hear other people when they're talking to him that's why I know he can hear me.
that's what form of emotional neglect or gaslighting stonewalling he does all of those things ..
what can I do I'm at the point now where I really hate talking to him at all. He has done and said things that he will say he didn't say it or it's my imagination or he's beginning to worry about me because he thinks I'm losing it all of this as a form of deflection or two somehow give me the impression that I'm not hearing what I know I have heard it is at the point where I'm ready to walk away.
To the outside he is the perfect husband the perfect father the perfect provider everything is perfect with him and everybody else around him especially me has issues

[geoffreyhoran]

How do you tell someone they need help, it's like red rag to a bull, then they twist it around so you think you've got the problem !

[kjtamf]

👍🏻❤️🙏🏻 this is the thing I couldn’t verbalise ... now I know it has a name 🙏🏻 thanks for the video ❤️
One thing I don’t understand is why they pick your most vulnerable times & hardest times in life to actually do these things is it all about power & control.
Because I’ve noticed it all seems to start when you start actualy start to say no or when your leaveing or when your sick or when your doing something for your own future or celebration times.
Why ??? I

[shorner]

The gas lighting.... they also have a big recovery center in Jerusalem. But it's kind of a pricey trip

[materialgirl]

Can you explain what happens to the body when this happens.