Their Strongest Weapon Against You Is Your Silence

Domestic violence is often understood as the act of physical violence of one family member toward another. In reality, many survivors reveal that they suffer as much from verbal and emotional abuse as from the actual physical abuse. Therefore, domestic violence includes all language and actions which inflict suffering on the victim. Domestic violence also includes behaviors which force someone to do things they do not want to, or prevent them from doing activities that they do want to do. Domestic Abuse and Violence can be Physical or Psychological. Some examples of Psychological Abuse are as follows: Jokes, insults, threats, public humiliation, name calling, yelling, intimidating, ignoring, blaming, accusing, manipulating, and isolating. Psychological abuse cause the victim to feel helpless, become depressed, have a mental breakdown, and even think about suicide. Physical Abuse and violence has follow examples: pushing, shoving, unmet physical needs, jerking, hitting, choking, biting, kicking, slapping, throwing the victim, throwing items, using objects to batter the victim with, squeezing, pinching, restraining, disfiguring, disabling, and murder. There are many other words and examples I could use here, but I believe that the question has been answered.