Being 'gaslighted' (just learned what this was)
Exist56
December 27th, 2016
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My oldest sister has been gaslighting me since I was little here and there. I don't think it was always concious or even malicious. We're grown adults now so I'm more capable of dealing with it. Still, I feel resentful about this.
I had never known there was a specific name for what she was doing. Questioning another's sense of reality in attempt to undermine or controll them emotionally is called 'gaslighting'. Usually narcissistic and sociopathic people do this.
For years all these comments like "are you sure that's what happened", "well I don't remember that happening", "you're being oversensitive", etc, would make me angry beyond belief and make me start to question my own memory when I was around her.