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"The best antidote to gaslighting is to hold firmly onto your reality."
"It's profoundly gaslighting for the person on the receiving end... it messes with your sanity and sense of reality."
"When you have an unfalsifiable belief like this, you quite literally begin to gaslight yourself."
"Anyone feeling hurt and gaslit right now, my message to you is this: your experiences were real, the proof is there, your trauma should be taken seriously."
"To Gaslight someone is to sow seeds of doubt in their mind that make them question their own sense of personal truth and reality."
"People who gaslight, use things like denial, contradiction, misinformation, misdirection, and even true information and facts, in order to destabilize, disorient, and delegitimize a person's sense of reality."
"When someone is gas-lit, they end up in a state of extreme cognitive dissonance. Doubting one's own sense of sanity, leads to a severe decrease in self-esteem as well."
"If you have suffered from gaslighting or are maybe even a victim of it right now, then your real issue is that you have no trust for yourself."
"Gaslighting undermines self trust. It especially undermines your trust in your own sense of reality and sense of perception."
"So the way gaslighting works is it's a denial of a person's reality."
"The true gaslighting abuse happens over time, over and over and over again."
"To continue to Gaslight Americans into thinking that this is not happening is unacceptable."
"I left Blizzard after my boss gaslit me so bad that my hair started falling out."
"Gaslighting is to manipulate someone by psychological means into doubting their own sanity."
"The recovery stages of gaslighting was just as hard as being gaslighted itself."
"Common feelings to have after being gaslighted is an immense amount of guilt, you may have absolutely no confidence, you may have feelings like you are going mad."
"Gaslighting is really designed to perpetuate this idea that you should not be able to trust what you think or to trust what you feel."
"People cannot be gaslit for making complaints and raising concerns."
"If you stand firm against the gaslighter, you say absolutely not, that happened, and I am not being too sensitive."
"I just want to say something really quick, you're gaslighting right now and I'm not okay with it."
"Gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time, a driver of disorientation and mistrust."
"Gaslighting at its core is a form of manipulation."
"Gaslighting means that you manipulate someone to question their own reality, that is gaslighting and gaslighting has become one of those words that is used to silence critics."
"Gaslighting: the doubting of another person's reality, deliberate or not."
"Gaslighting is obviously manipulation, emotional abuse, and it sets a tone for the relationship."
"It's so minimizing and it's also gaslighting."
"Denying colorism's existence is gaslighting."
"Gaslighting makes people feel like they are losing their grip on reality."
"That's how gaslighting works... they start like they're on your side and then flip it to distort your reality."
"Gaslighting is where you tell somebody something not true and then when they respond to the untruth you blame them for responding to the untruth."
"Gaslighting qualifies as a form of emotional abuse that involves denying a person's experience."
"Gaslighting distorts reality and causes confusion."
"We have for the last 50 years endured a regime that really was designed to gaslight the country."
"Gas lighting is when you feel a certain way...someone else is making you doubt your reality."
"Causing someone to doubt their own sanity and reality is certainly where we are at with regards to most of the events that are being talked about in the world today."
"Gaslighting is essentially trying to make a person question their own feelings, their own sight."
"Gaslighting is where one person's reality is denied so the narcissistic person can maintain their own reality."
"Gaslighting happens on so many levels... you don't realize how often we undermine somebody's opinions, thoughts, feelings."
"Gaslighting, which is the deliberate denial of your reality, is designed to Foster self-doubt."
"I'm done with the gaslighting. Totally and utterly done with it."
"The definition of gaslighting: making you feel like you're overreacting and blowing things out of proportion."
"Gaslighting is a very highly manipulative technique of psychological abuse where they try to make you think that you're crazy."
"Is gaslighting a new thing? Is propaganda our new thing?"
"Don't fall for gaslighting and manipulation. Don't be belittled by little people."
"Gaslighting is a process of psychological abuse and manipulation."
"Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation."
"Normally when we talk about gaslighting we're talking about the way an abuser twists your sense of reality and tries to make unacceptable situations acceptable to you."
"Victim blaming is a form of gaslighting... mutual abuse does not exist."
"If your parent is one of those parents that say 'I don't remember'... that's gaslighting."
"Gaslighting is akin to a mental game where the manipulator attempts to sow doubts in the victim's mind about their memory, perception, or sanity."
"Gaslighting is a tactic to make the victim question their reality and sanity."
"Gaslighting is the act of making someone believe something didn't happen when you know it did."
"Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality."
"Should we have faith in a society that would gaslight kids into believing in Santa Claus, they'll gaslight him into believing anything."
"Don't ever let them make you feel crazy, especially when you know you're right."
"Consider the irreparable damage you're inflicting on herself esteem by lying and gaslighting her, and leave her alone."
"Why you sitting there gaslighting and doing all the other stuff... to me is goofy, it's real goofy."
"This man is playing you 100%. He is gaslighting you into thinking that anything less than you working your butt off means that you are entitled and not doing enough."
"Gaslighting doesn't work when you've got a community of people who all go, 'yeah, that's nuts.'"
"Stop yelling at me can you please stop lying can you please stop making [ __ ] up he did not do that Natalie and that's that's some gaslighting to the next level."
"Your boyfriend is full of malarkey, he's gaslighting you, OP."
"I'm often gaslit into believing that I'm wrong or I'm causing problems or my way of thinking just can't possibly be correct."
"A liar caught in a lie, when they're given an evidence base, they will gaslight you."
"That's why gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse with zero question we can just sign and seal that one right now it definitely is emotionally abusive."
"The fragile narcissist uses crazy-making communication to make you feel like you're crazy, to bully you, to provoke you, to exasperate you."
"Gaslighting is where you make the target feel like they're crazy by either lying to them or moving stuff around and then claiming you didn't do it."
"...darvo is pernicious; the last part, the reversing of roles and making themselves the victim when they have so clearly done wrong, is the gaslighting main event."
"This generation seems to have a lot of gaslighting men, especially when a woman tries to express how they feel about something."
"Gaslighting has been around since like cavemen have crawled out of the cave but we just now have a word for it."
"Trauma-bonded enablers justify the narcissistic person's behavior, giving it a free pass, and may even gaslight you."
"The implication when somebody tells you to be the bigger person is that if you call this person out, then you're being a smaller person. That's gaslighting."
"I don't support gaslighting someone into getting an abortion when they don't want it and then making them feel bad about doing that thing. I think that that's the behavior of a sociopath or something. Something is very wrong with you if you're doing that to someone."
"Being wrong about something is not gaslighting someone."
"There was definitely some sort of gaslighting or emotional manipulation that was going on that caused you to want to move forward from this connection."
"Gaslighting requires premeditation, power asymmetry, and intact reality testing of the perpetrator."
"Gaslighting isn't helpful. It's just unacceptable and simply must stop. But it's going to create anxiety."
"She literally told me my body my rules before presenting her with the evidence. I gave her a chance to come clean, however she gaslighted me."
"As soon as they get you to the breaking point, they're going to try to make you feel like you're the crazy one."
"Gaslighting is always premeditated, intentional, goal-oriented. It involves an asymmetry of power."
"In both gaslighting and in lying or deception, the person who commits these misbehaviors is aware of the distinction between fantasy and reality, is firmly grounded in reality."
"They start telling you what you think, what you feel, what you believe, and what's actually right about things in your life."
"Your roommate is gaslighting you."
"If somebody's gaslighting you and they're making you feel like you're the one going nuts because they're like I didn't say that and you're like well yeah you did, you feel friction in your body."
"It sounds like this guy is absolutely gaslighting you."
"The gaslighting trope is evidence of how our culture can provide a language for something we know is happening, but don't accurately know how to describe."
"When you name and recognize something like gaslighting, you're able to challenge it."
"They will gaslight you, deny their actions, make you think you're crazy."
"He'll smear your name to make you look crazy, even though he's the one who pushed you to that point."
"Expecting him to parent his own child while he's home isn't gaslighting. If anything, his implication that everything you do to keep the house and your child taken care of isn't real work is gaslighting."
"...whenever I see a guy in a situation like this and he's being gaslit and convinced that he's the problem, it makes me lose my mind, guys."
"It was gaslighting at the highest degree."
"Bugs might just be one of the biggest gaslighters in animation."
"What is medical gaslighting? It's most concisely defined as the experience in which a medical professional discounts a patient's concerns."
"When one gets gaslit, it means that their concerns are being blown off and manipulated by someone in a trusted authoritative position, leading that individual to doubt their sanity, to second guess themselves."
"...they can use gaslighting techniques like 'you're remembering things wrong'...no acknowledgment of guilt, no admission of any wrongdoing...that's what a narcissist is."
"that's hard can't be this cruel it's it's just who I am Gaslight 101 huh"
"You have just taken that torch and lit the torch inside yourself when you gaslight yourself."
"So once the gaslighting and minimization began on top of the betrayal, that's when I started to feel physiologically sick. My stomach felt nauseous, my throat tightened up, the tears started to come."
"I'm obsessed. It was another feminist song, and I really liked the line about, like, you call me crazy, okay, I'll get crazier. Like, what about it? This is like an anthem for gaslighting."
"You're being too emotional. They'll use your emotional reaction to make you question your reality."
"I'm not the problem, you are. They'll blame you for their actions and make you question yourself."
"That wasn't my intention. They'll manipulate you by making you question your memory and perceptions."
"You are crazy or you need help. They'll make you feel like you're going crazy, questioning your sanity."
"When you're gaslit, you start to question everything about yourself."
"Emotional and verbal abuse doesn't have to mean that he's saying to you that you're fat, that you're stupid or you're [__], it could mean that he's telling you that your ideas are dumb."
"A real woman who recognizes being gaslit will always look for actions."
"If someone calls you a gossip because you need to externally process the events of your life, they are gaslighting you."
"We have no idea what to believe who to believe this book literally gaslit me as I was reading it and you have no idea the entire time what is actually happening outside of the Four Walls of this little little cabin"
"You made me feel like I was crazy, bro."
"It's like the most ultimate gaslighting when you're like I know this is not right."
"Having healthy boundaries are a big part of dealing with gas lighting."
"If they manipulate or gaslight you, you're already at a disadvantage."
"This is gaslighting, 100% gaslighting."
"The level of gaslighting that I endured, it was hard to swallow."
"Not the a-hole. This is classic gaslighting behavior."
"You're acting extra, you're doing too much, you always do this, you always do the most. That's gaslighting."
"Now she starts gaslighting. She's doing more than lies, and this is what happens a lot of times when you question a narcissist or someone hiding a secret."
"Accept that you will be lied to, that is standard operating procedure for someone who's gaslighting, and so they want you to believe their lies that's the trick don't go there but accept that you will be lied to okay accept that you can't fully know this person."
"They don't have to kill us if they gaslight us, that's what it is."
"There's a difference between discipline and gaslighting."
"You're gaslighting and this how what's the problem with this one?"
"What was more interesting to me was the idea of gaslighting and changing someone's reality."
"Gaslighting is a deliberate attempt to convince you that your perception of reality is in error."
"When you're with a master gaslighter you can just start to think that the sky is actually red and green because they just say it so much but you're not crazy"
"Because there's literal evidence that you did this, they have evidence, they didn't make it up, and the fact that you're trying to tell them that they did is gaslighting."
"It's always been they're trying to gas up literal mid you guys know who to Pick."
"A lot of these women are out here trying to gaslight men and manipulate men."
"But it takes, but when you're being gaslighted or gaslit or when someone is gaslighting you like this and this is such an egregious example, the manipulation is so extreme that it causes you to rethink your whole what it is that's what they want."
"Ignoring something as important as testosterone is gaslighting."
"Harry, don't ever gaslight me again. We won't work out in the future."
"My personal opinion is actually quite toxic. It literally made a whole generation of gaslighters."
"Now they've got this whole like group of minions out there supporting them helping them to gaslight you."
"Next week, we're going to talk more about accidental gaslighting and how to avoid it."
"Gaslighting is manipulative behavior. It's used to confuse people and make them think that their reactions are so far off base that they're crazy."
"If you feel like you are in a situation with someone that's gaslighting you, that you do take a step to get help. You're not crazy."
"Gaslighting: Manipulation and abuse. Someone tells us we don't actually feel the way we feel."
"If a person says your experience is wrong and here's why... that's gaslighting, and that's absolutely a problem. Would be a red flag for me."
"People with post-vaccine injuries dismissed and gaslighted."
"No matter how convincing and shaming a gaslighter may sound, calling something your truth doesn't make it truth."
"Does a Gaslight or gas light consciously? Yes, they can be very intentional and calculated in their manner of gaslighting."
"Gaslighting is dangerous because of the subtleness and the insidiousness of it all."
"Gaslighting is not just a dismantling of reality that's one essential piece but there's also that piece of attempting to paint you and convincing you that there's something wrong with you."
"Gaslighting is a consistent sort of process so it's repeated so often that if we don't know what's happening we may actually start believing that we're impaired."
"The more time you spend away from a gaslighter, the greater chance you will not go back to the relationship."
"I just feel like I'm constantly being gaslit"
"It's the gaslighting for me. The gaslighting the police officer, like, really? He's acting like he's the victim."
"That's gaslighting as [ __ ], bro. I know, right? Gaslighting as [ __ ]."
"They're gaslighting bastards that make you look and feel like a fool."
"You're [__] pathetic. Oh, that's very gaslighting, I might use it."
"Gaslighting me like crazy. Every time I complained about the noise, they would repeat that the upstairs neighbors denied making noise."
"Now you're gaslighting me with this nuance, yeah, but that's all I'm saying."
"Growing up I was kind of like gaslit into believing that I just had really bad anxiety and I was like a drama queen."
"That's controlling and manipulative, that's gaslighting."
"Manipulation is a big thing that narcissists use. I wonder if gaslighting is maybe their main tool."
"Little kids gaslight probably more than anyone."
"There are people out there missing out on you and the value that you bring to the table and the world just wants to Gaslight your mind."
"You know, people start to think they're going crazy because they're made to feel that way."
"Enough said, Justin. If your plan for 2024 is to weaponize gaslighting against corporations, I am 100% here. That could be cool. That's the tagline of the year, no matter what."
"Gaslighting is when you are intentionally denying the reality of the other person or making them question their own perceptions. That's what gaslighting is."
"Gaslighting is definitely one. Lying is definitely one as well and intimidating you in some ways is one as well."
"Gaslighting is definitely one of their favorite favorite favorite tactics."
"I'm just your friend, you're gaslighting the gaslighter."
"Gaslighting is knowing that something is true and intentionally making the other person think that the fact that they think it's true is [__] and that it's all in their head."
"It's literally, it's like that saying like there's no hate quite like Christian love, right? It's like this idea that like you say, you know, we love these people the way Christ loves them and it's, it is just gaslighting."
"To blame the victims of genocide for causing it is gaslighting."
"Gaslighting is not when somebody disagrees with you... it's when somebody knows the truth."
"Men have any legitimate concerns, they're kind of gaslit. We're kind of sad to go out there and do these things anyway."
"They say it's all in my head. They make me feel like I'm crazy."
"Men like to call you crazy because that's kind of like a form of gaslighting."
"In this age of misinformation, fake news, conspiracy theories, Twitter, trolls, and deep fakes, gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time."
"It's not okay to gaslight, it's not okay to invalidate, it's not okay to treat my siblings this way, it's not okay to treat me or my other parent or other people or the guy at the gas station, it's not okay."
"This is narcissistic abuse, this is gaslighting, this is manipulation."
"She knew she wasn't going crazy even though everyone including the police are trying to convince her that she's going crazy."
"Gaslighting is when a person that you're in relationship with makes you feel like somehow you're losing your mind."
"We aren't falling for the gaslighting anymore; we're not agreeing to go with the flow in ways that do not serve us."
"He was very manipulative and gaslit me into believing I wanted everything that was happening to me."
"Gaslighting is the pathologically insecure preying on the conventionally insecure."
"She insists this is all because she wanted a slice of pizza. Is that realistic? Am I being gaslit?"
"So you're just gonna gaslight me? I thought I deserved better than that."
"Gaslighting is all about the narcissists trying to manipulate you into believing that what you think is true really is not."
"You both are such a great example of how to stand tall in the face of absolutely absurd gaslighting and abuse."
"Gaslighting is an abuse tactic whereby an abuser causes the victim to doubt their own perception of reality."
"Don't let anybody gaslight you to feel like you have to be okay with something that you're not okay with."
"You don't argue with a gaslighter, you enforce your boundaries."
"When you are dealing with someone who is committed to gaslighting you, you got to be committed to your boundaries and you got to be committed to your self-respect."
"If you come from a dysfunctional home, then you've been gaslit... where your reality and your noticing of what you notice is devalued."
"You're not alone with the gaslighting and people making you feel like you were less than, you're not."
"Gaslighting is very, very psychologically damaging to people."
"They're gaslighting the general public. People watched the actual trial, they saw the evidence firsthand, it wasn't filtered through the media."