Gaslighting. It's hard to go even one nightly scroll without someone on TikTok raging about the unfairness of it all. Indeed, gaslighting has become a buzzy term on social media and in popular culture ...

A straightforward guide to identifying the verbal tactics manipulators use to control narratives and evade accountability. It ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You may have recognized gaslighting behavior but never knew the signs. This form of manipulation may ...

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If Instagram is your therapist, you may have been led to believe that if someone strongly disagrees with your point of view, then they are gaslighting you. As a psychotherapist, I have heard this term ...

Barry Johnson’s chronic misuse of the term “gaslighting” prompts me to quote Inigo Montoya: “you keep using that word… I don’t think it means what you think it means.” Gaslighting is manipulating ...

“I don’t remember that, you must have imagined it.” “Everyone agrees with me—you’re overreacting.” “Wow, you’re acting so crazy right now.” Do these comments sound familiar? If so, you may have been ...