How to Overcome Abuse

Physical abuse is commonplace - the drunk husbandThis is how it works:
beating his wife, the cop over-stepping his duties, the- By refusing to make your own opinions, you
mother hurting her child.mentally abuse yourself.
- The only good thing about physical abuse is that- By refusing to exercise and eat carefully, you
you have the chance to get away, to removephysically abuse yourself.
yourself from the situation - if you are not there,- By refusing to display discipline you totally abuse
they cannot get you.yourself.
Mental abuse is rife - the wife who constantly pecks- By refusing to see the truth you refuse to tell the
away at her husband, the school teacher who pickstruth and you abuse your children.
on a student, the children in the playground teasingDo not allow ignorance to lead to abuse...
one child in particular.Do not accept what you were told...
- The problem with mental abuse is that it stays with- If something does not make sense, if something
the victim and effects all areas of their life and theirfeels wrong, if something confuses or hurts you,
self-confidence - avoiding mental abuse is harder, andthen step back, step away, step up to real life and
the effects linger.see the truth.
- Most abuse is self-inflicted - the physically abused- If someone mistreats you verbally or physically you
person who refuses to leave; the victim of mentalonly have yourself to blame if you stay.
abuse who refuses to stand up; the acceptance of- If you are in mental or physical pain, then do
confusing lessons and ideologies that instill onlysomething to stop it and fight it.
weakness and fear.Most abuse is self-inflicted because most of us only
The good news is that you can confront and defeatquestion some things, accept most things and do
self-inflicted abuse by being realistic, not idealistic ornothing to change the systems that fail again and
weak.again and again.