As a practicing therapist, I know what sexual abuse looks like from the victims' perspective.
They keep up a constant barrage of abuse, looking a little like animals themselves as they snarl and howl at the site workers, their faces contorted with rage.
How to cope with the stresses of study and exams, how to set goals, positive psychology, relaxation techniques, how to handle conflict in relationships, alcohol abuse, looking out for his each other's safety at parties, and what the law says on sexual consent and sexting.
Prototypical privateering abuse looks like this; Company A licenses some patents to Company B. Then, Company A – just like colonial powers from the 17th Century, empower pirates (Company C in our example) to attack their rivals (Company B in our example) by lending or selling other patents to Company C. Company C then threatens Company B with allegations of patent infringement.
I am here to tell you that this is not what domestic abuse looks like.
If you are unsure, find out what verbal abuse looks like.
Educating yourself and the people you love, about what abuse looks like is a first step we can all take.
"Anything that normalizes marijuana with kids is child abuse". Looks like clothes for kids have gone to pot, and that has parents and anti-drug advocates fired up.
It teaches our middle school children about what abuse looks like and what it looks like for a trafficker to begin to groom an individual.
To be clear, this spectrum doesn't imply that abuse on one end of the spectrum is somehow "worse" or "more severe" than other abuse -- it's all terrible, but abuse looks quite different depending on where it falls on the spectrum.
