Emotional abuse isn’t always easy to spot. If you’re constantly being put down, ignored, or made to feel like you’re not good enough then that can be abuse. Abuse is never your fault, and you don’t deserve it.
Emotional abuse can include:
- calling you names, putting you down, or doing things to make you feel bad about yourself
- shouting at you, even if you haven't done anything wrong
- ignoring you, leaving you out of things, or making you feel like you don’t belong
- making you take responsibility for things you shouldn’t have to do until you’re older
- controlling you or putting pressure on you to do things you’re not ready to do
- treating you differently from your brothers or sisters
- putting you in dangerous situations
- seeing other people at home being violent, abusive or aggressive
- stopping you from having any friends.
If you’re going through abuse, you’re not alone and we can support you.