Emotional or psychological abuse is a pattern of relational aggression or maltreatment characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It can include:

• Verbal Abuse: Constant yelling, screaming, insulting, name-calling, shaming, ridiculing, criticizing, or making threats.
• Intimidation: Making someone fearful through looks, actions, gestures, smashing things, or destroying property. Displaying weapons to threaten.
• Isolation: Controlling who someone sees, where they go, what they do. Limiting outside involvement, use of phone or social media.
• Gaslighting: Manipulating someone into doubting their own sanity, memory, or perception of reality.
• Humiliation: Publicly embarrassing or shaming someone.
• Economic Abuse/Control (often co-occurs): Controlling access to money, forbidding work, or ruining credit.
• Coercion and Threats: Making or carrying out threats to harm the person, their children, pets, or loved ones; threatening suicide to manipulate.
• Stalking or Harassment.
• Constant Monitoring or Demanding Accountability for All Time Spent.
• Withholding Affection or Support as Punishment.