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    Verbal Abuse Is Much More Destructive Than Physical Abuse

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    Verbal abuse is defined as using language to undermine someone's dignity through insults or humiliation. It can cause significant psychological harm. While physical injuries often heal quickly, verbal abuse can have lifelong impacts on its victims. The speaker argues that verbal abuse is actually more destructive than physical abuse because the psychological effects often last forever. Examples of verbal abuse include name-calling, criticism, threats, and discounting a person's experiences. Verbal abuse is commonly overlooked despite its ability to cause mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It damages self-esteem and relationships. Overall, the speaker aims to bring more attention to the harmful effects of verbal abuse.

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    Verbal abuse is defined as using language to undermine someone's dignity through insults or humiliation. It can cause significant psychological harm. While physical injuries often heal quickly, verbal abuse can have lifelong impacts on its victims. The speaker argues that verbal abuse is actually more destructive than physical abuse because the psychological effects often last forever. Examples of verbal abuse include name-calling, criticism, threats, and discounting a person's experiences. Verbal abuse is commonly overlooked despite its ability to cause mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It damages self-esteem and relationships. Overall, the speaker aims to bring more attention to the harmful effects of verbal abuse.

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    Verbal abuse is defined as using language to undermine someone's dignity through insults or humiliation. It can cause significant psychological harm. While physical injuries often heal quickly, verbal abuse can have lifelong impacts on its victims. The speaker argues that verbal abuse is actually more destructive than physical abuse because the psychological effects often last forever. Examples of verbal abuse include name-calling, criticism, threats, and discounting a person's experiences. Verbal abuse is commonly overlooked despite its ability to cause mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It damages self-esteem and relationships. Overall, the speaker aims to bring more attention to the harmful effects of verbal abuse.

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    Verbal Abuse Is Much More Destructive Than Physical Abuse

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    Verbal abuse is defined as using language to undermine someone's dignity through insults or humiliation. It can cause significant psychological harm. While physical injuries often heal quickly, verbal abuse can have lifelong impacts on its victims. The speaker argues that verbal abuse is actually more destructive than physical abuse because the psychological effects often last forever. Examples of verbal abuse include name-calling, criticism, threats, and discounting a person's experiences. Verbal abuse is commonly overlooked despite its ability to cause mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It damages self-esteem and relationships. Overall, the speaker aims to bring more attention to the harmful effects of verbal abuse.

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    The key takeaways are that verbal abuse can be more psychologically damaging than physical abuse and have long-lasting effects, and examples of verbal abuse are mentioned such as name-calling, threatening, and belittling.

    Some examples of verbal abuse mentioned are accusing/blaming, name-calling, ordering the victim around, judging/criticizing, abusive anger, discounting or minimizing the victim's experiences, and threatening.

    According to the text, verbal abuse can cause psychological issues like fear/anxiety, depression, alcohol/drug addiction, anger-related issues, PTSD, memory disorders, and issues related to sleeping and/or eating. It can also impact self-esteem and attachments for a lifetime.

    VERBAL ABUSE IS MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN PHYSICAL

    ABUSE….
    Before I start my speech I would like share about what is VERBAL ABUSE??
    Verbal Abuse is “the excessive use of (negative) language to undermine
    someone’s dignity and security through insults or humiliation in a sudden or
    repeated manner”. This is also known as emotional abuse.
    How many of you has ever been told something about yourself that was not
    true? Then when you tried to explain how you feel about it, you were
    considered being soft or told to toughen it up?? In fact, I would argue that
    verbal abuse is always more destructive than physical abuse. Even when you’re
    being physically abused, it is preceded by, verbal abuse. The actual physical
    abuse causes physical injuries. That’s it. Those injuries almost always heal, with
    little or no physical evidence that they were ever there. However, the
    psychological effects of abuse almost always last forever. For instance, if you
    are hit by a runaway baseball during a game with your friends, it will leave an
    ugly bruise and you’ll probably cry. Then, before too long, you’ll be back to
    playing baseball with your friends. There are the differences in how others view
    the two and, thus, how it’s handled while you’re being abused. If you have cuts,
    bruises, broken bones, or the clearly expressed threat of physical injuries, you
    are much more likely to be helped by those in charge. Likewise, the average
    person is much more likely to support you later.
    When most people hear the word "pain", they automatically assume that it is
    physical pain that is being dealt. Yet most of the pain in the world is emotional,
    which is caused mainly by just a few words arranged in such a way that it will
    actually send a bolt of emotional distress straight through that individuals' heart
    and soul. Everyone has experienced this whether they were the victim, the
    attacker, or just a witness, if not all three. Most people think physical violence is
    more dangerous than verbal abuse in a relationship, but this is a misconception.
    It's why we often hear well-meaning advice such as, "If an abuser's behaviour
    turns violent, it's time to leave."  But what if the victim is child or a kid?
    I will probably always remember a young Mother in the grocery store telling
    her child how stupid he was for putting a can of food she had sat next to him in
    the cart into his mouth. Parents usually lack the awareness of verbal abuse
    towards their children, causing lifelong psychological damage.
    Like any area of human action, it begins in the mind and heart. A Proverbs
    says, "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." What a person thinks in his
    mind and heart will be reflected in his words and actions. Verbal abuse tends to
    get worse over time, and can have long-term mental and physical effects on the
    victim. However, verbal abuse is often not taken as seriously as physical abuse,
    because an abuser may act like a completely different person in public than he
    or she is at home. Further, it may be difficult or even impossible to prove that
    someone is being verbally abused. I will share some examples of verbal abuse
    which is
     Accusing/blaming
     Name-calling
     Ordering the victim around
     Judging/criticizing
     Abusive anger
     Discounting or minimizing the victim’s experiences
     Threatening

    As I mention before verbal abuse is known to cause such psychological issues


    as:
     Fear/anxiety
     Depression
     Alcohol/drug addiction
     Anger-related issues
     Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
     Memory disorders
     Issues related to sleeping and/or eating

    Verbal abuse is also a problem in everyday society. “It is one of the most


    devastating forms of abuse. Broken bones heal, but being belittled, terrorized, or
    neglected by a parent can impact self-esteem, attachments, and other aspects of
    development for a lifetime.”
    I am not denying that physical abuse is harmful to an individual, I am just
    simply saying that verbal abuse is highly overlooked and still a big problem.
    Abuse overall is a very touchy subject and sometimes hard to hear about. Even
    just thinking about someone getting beaten down by words or even by fists.
    Abuse will always be a problem, but it seems like the number of cases are just
    growing. Psychological abuse or Verbal abuse involves being attacked with
    words, which in my opinion hurts more than getting a slap to the face. I would
    rather get hit and get the abuse over with, then sitting there getting belittled all
    day long.
    Finally I am going to end my speech with a quote which says ‘VERBAL
    ABUSE IS JUST AS BAD AS PHYSICAL. WORSE! YOU CAN HEAL
    BROKEN BONES; YOU CANT HEAL A BROKEN MIND.’THANK YOU
    FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

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