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How do you define verbal abuse? Is it simply name calling or more derogatory, such as demeaning and belittling a child? Would you recognize verbal abuse if you saw it? Learn how to help a child being verbally abused.

Verbal Abuse Defined

Unfortunately, I get verbally abused by my mom most of the time :(! I'm hoping it will stop soonest...

Beverly-

Thank you for visiting. I am sorry that your mom verbally abuses you. Are you in school? Is there anyone you can talk to and get some support?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Have a blessed day-

I thought as I grew up in to an Adult where I old enough to leave home that all my childhood year's of abuse would just vanished. Huh! that is joke on me. Those memories are still there and I just forget ever being a child. Verbal and emotional abuse was more worse then the physical abuse. Those memories I relieve every day in how I present my own life as Adult. I don't like being around people, great impact in my life as an Adult. I don't like close in small areas, having to go to hospitals in to the clinic's, I end up having a panic attack. It has an impact in my dreams, wishes. I don't believe in them anymore. Don't tell me that verbal abuse don' t hurt, I am a live victim that has been very verbal abuse. I am Adult living childhood ghosts of the past.

Sadeye52

Verbal abuse is hard to see how it affects people because unlike physical abuse there is little evidence to say see and show one "this is why it hurts"?!

Words hurt...it is that simple. Verbal abuse echoes in our ears long after the words were said. What someone says cannot be taken back once it is said...ever.

I am sorry you are hurting. I wish I could take it all away.

Thank you for sharing the effects that verbal abuse has played in your life. Maybe one person will realize how powerful words are and think before they speak harshly to a child.