What does Gaslighting mean?
Other definitions of Gaslighting:
- The purposeful misleading and misdirection that is meant to slowly drive someone insane. The term originates from a 1940's stage-play in which a husband convinces his wife she is insane.
- Manipulating someone's life and surroundings in the attempt to make them doubt their reality.
- This term refers to lying someone overtime to convince them that their insane. A older stage play involved a husband slowing altering the gas lights within their home and lying to his wife about how he hadn't noticed any change in the light.
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How to use the term
Gaslighting:
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He was trying to gaslight me, so I dumped him.
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Gaslighting is very real, and if you think someone is trying to do it to you, talk to your friends or family about it.
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I can tell you're trying to gaslight me, and that's emotional abuse. We're done.
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