Gaslighting

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Gaslighting is the opposite of validating someone's feelings or mental state. We belittle them and their experience, and even worse try to convince them that they are seeing the world wrong. We attack, whether intentionally or not, their Self esteem.

Perhaps gaslighting is more common with those who lack Empathy, they are unable to see the world through the eyes of another, or perhaps they don't even acknowledge that the world can be perceived differently for different people, so they believe (mistakenly) that their Subjective Reality is the "one and true reality".

Perhaps gaslighting is a sign for the difference between general knowledge and experience knowledge. While we know that something can be scary or hurtful, until it happens to us, until we are experiencing it first hand we will have hard time to really understand those who are going through it, and we will try to reduce their experience to nothing.

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