Psychological Abuse, which is also known as emotional abuse is when a person harms another person through emotional or mental anguish which is psychologically harmful. People always say that "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me", but words do hurt people because there are different kinds of people in the world.

Emotional abuse is happening everywhere and there are various forms of it. Most common of these abuses would be work related abuse where you get shouted at all the time and end up getting stressed, which usually ends up turning for the worst where you end up becoming sick mentally as well as physically.

Another form of emotional abuse which is also common would be child abuse where you find the parents or parent has abused the child mentally and physically and you will probably not know it because the child will find a way to hide it and this child tends to grow up an abusive parent as well.

Other forms of abuse would be relationship abuse, bigotry, racial oppression and group psychological abuse. There is also community based harassment which is also referred to as stalking. It is important that if we see any form of psychological abuse happening that we try to intervene and stop it from going any further.

Many of the people who have suffered any form of psychological abuse can be healed by some form of psychiatric technique or by psychotherapy as long as they are given a safe haven and environment, where they can heal without any forms of abuse or stress. It does take longer for the older folks who are usually put in a quiet home to heal but in the long run it does help all.