What is the harshest way to hurt someone emotionally?
I saw one comment listed 1.) Gaslighting, 2.) Betrayal, 3.) Physical abuse, 4.) Lying to somebody, and 5.) Silent treatment, and many others that say “forcing someone to love you,” or, “pretending to love someone, when you don't or making them believe you love them when you don't.” I have known mostly emotional abuse in my lifetime. I have been betrayed by the one I least expected to do so, Physically abused by those I never believed would, lied to, gaslighted, told I was loved without evidence, and given the silent treatment for yearlong periods. I have been confined to small spaces, made to harm myself, starved, and deprived of water, and otherwise degraded by those close to me. Of all the kinds of abuse I have suffered, though, none is worse than when someone treats you as though you don't exist. The silent treatment is by far the worst. You have only questions and no way to get answers, you have doubts and no way to relieve them; you have loneliness, and someone there