Gaslighting is a type of abuse that causes a victim to doubt their thoughts, perceptions, reality, and in some cases, their sanity. Because they find people who are subjected to repeated gaslighting simple to manage, narcissists love to use this tactic.
Gaslighting can take many forms from questioning the status of your mental health to outright challenging your lived experiences. The most dangerous culprits of gaslighting? Malignant narcissists, who, by default, use gaslighting as a strategy to undermine the perception of their victims in order to evade accountability for their abuse.
These perpetrators can use gaslighting callously and sadistically because they lack the remorse, empathy, or conscience to have any limits when they terrorize you or covertly provoke you. Gaslighting by a malignant narcissist is covert murder with clean hands, allowing the perpetrator to get away with their mistreatment while depicting the victims as the abusers.
After all, if a person doesn’t trust themselves, they’ll go somewhere else for knowledge, even if it’s to an abusive person who is the reason they don’t trust themselves in the first place. Gaslighting can be quite subtle, making it difficult to recognize.
The following are some of the most typical phrases used by narcissists to deceive their victims.
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