Are you being “Gaslighted”?

The
term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her
husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film
adaptations released in 1940 and 1944.

In the
story the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane
by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is
mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out
these changes. The play’s title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly
dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an
effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her
husband to …read more