It's basically where something is an obvious and visible reality, but you look right at the other person and tell them that they are not seeing what they're seeing. And you wear them down by lying until they don't even believe or trust their own minds, and believe you instead
What exactly is gaslighting? My brother used the term when I was talking to him about this stuff and I’ve been hearing it a lot lately.
It's basically where something is an obvious and visible reality, but you look right at the other person and tell them that they are not seeing what they're seeing. And you wear them down by lying until they don't even believe or trust their own minds, and believe you instead
Yep. Came from an old play where a husband convinces his wife she's insane, by slowly dimming the gas-fueled lights and insisting nothing had changed.
It's the kind of things that can push a person toward schizophrenia.
We ought to sue them for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
It is a term coined from the 1944 film Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/gaslighting/what-is-gaslighting?gclid=Cj0KCQiArvX_BRCyARIsAKsnTxNU4GrjsZmYLgG0qsH9TgcNPvgkBtJ7FZzAHbdimPwbMqvKKB3AOt4aAs2aEALw_wcB
brainwashing you to believe their alternate reality