Abuse

It isn’t just physical and that’s what many people lack an understanding of.

It can be psychological or emotional abuse, discriminatory abuse, organisational or institutional abuse. The list can go on but the point is that not everything is visible and sometimes it is mental torture and disturbance.

Abuse has a variety of ways to be formed and to be caused.

What we do tend to is brush off verbal abuse. It’s horrific and diabolical but it’s also acceptable in this day and age we are living. This generation has normalised disrespecting each other as it’s their way of communicating in a foul manner.

What we forget is that something so little can cause so much. The slightest discrimination or unnecessary negative comment can stay on someone’s mind constantly and you’ll never know or the one-off slap you give to an individual can bruise their mentality into thinking this is normality and pass the abuse on.

We all learn from others, we adapt and gain knowledge from what other people do. Everything we have learnt right now is all to do with imitating and watching observations.

We forget that we have an impact on every little thing we do.

Abuse isn’t normal and it neither should be normalised.

Stop treating others with disrespect because you fail to be kind. Don’t cause a negative brainstorm on their mind and neither should you be blind of what you do.

If you are someone witnessing or a victim of abuse. Please reach out, seek for help and gain a way out. You are stronger than you think and you will get through it.

Here are some links and numbers to help you:

Domestic Abuse Helpline – 0808 802 3333

Refuge Helpline – 0808 2000 247 (24 hours)

Domestic and sexual abuse helpline – 0808 802 1414

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Scotland’s domestic abuse and forced marriage helpline