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Gas Lighting

"Gas Lighting" 

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The Blog City Prompt Forum prompt for February 7, 2017 is "Prompt: In Gaslight (1944), the movie, a husband manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855
“Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality, and it works well,” says the psychologist Stephanie Sarkis Ph.D.
The situation need not be a husband-wife thing; it could be teacher-student, two friends, two colleagues, two countries, etc. When someone causes another person question his or herself as to the existence of their mind, willpower, smarts, judgment, beauty, etc., how would you help the victim see the truth? Then, what do you think of those who gaslight? Are they aware of their own actions? "

First of all I've had personal experience with gas lighting. I won't say who it was but I was around a very manipulative person for months who could convince you that the things you say and heard absolutely were not real.Fortunately I lived a lifestyle that demanded rigorous honesty and ultimately overcame the gas lighting. Do I think the gas lighting was intentional? No I do not. It's just the type of person they were.