Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation

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Who deleted my posts?

Thread locked for being racist.

Pepe , you must stop with racist threads.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

I first learned about gaslighting in an Archie comic, of all things.

Archie and Jughead had just finished watching the movie, and then Jughead , being the woman-hater he is, told Archie it was easy for a man to make a woman think she was losing her mind because "He was a man! She was just a dumb ol' woman." Archie reasons that women are not dumb (good for him), but then suddenly remembers he was supposed be going on on a date with Veronica, but was so into the movie he had forgotten about it. Veronica then shows up and she is very slightly peeved, but then Jughead tries the gaslighting thing on her by pretending he's Archie and that Archie is Jughead. It actually seems to be working, so Archie decides to just play along rather than be in trouble with Ronnie. Jughead, playing as Archie, asks Veronica is she's feeling all right because she's supposedly getting them mixed up, and has she been getting a lot of headaches and worrying. Veronica says she has, and asks if she's been acting "strangely". But then the gaslighting game ends abruptly when Veronica tries to hug and kiss Jughead, who goes right back to being himself and runs away. Then Veronica mentions to Archie that she had been watching Gaslight too, while she was being stood up by him.

Pepe I don't know what you're talking about.

Is this a random thread to start a discussion about gaslighting or is this thread split from another thread?

There are no other threads. You are only imagining them.

Some members have been complaining about posts by a member called 'Pepe' ?

We have no members here called Pepe.

Maybe a step too far in the name of humour but we'll see

This is all funny until it happens to you or someone you care about.

When this is done to a young child it can and does cause: "Ontological insecurity".
This "hollows-out" the individual and essentially ret*ds their personal growth for literally decades.
People who have had this done to them have been described as "dead" inside.

Being denied a cohesive sense of self can cause a dissociative disorder.
Personally, I think it inevitable.

Kudos to the evolutionary process which created creatures that can do this sort of thing. <vitriolic sarcasm>

It’s one of the main tools a psychopath uses to manipulate victims.

I think it's a tool used by most people on the Dark Triad

My {(undisclosed male person person in my life)} habitually projects his own annoying behavior on others around him. The usual claim is that "we" are being passive agressive, when every other sentence that comes out of his mouth is passive agressive. He is avoidant just like my [(other person who is close to me)] is too. It is madenning.

There are some pretty crazy psychological conditions, but it seems like the ones that have to do with personality disorders come with some kind of childhood trauma. Gaslighting a child is mentally sick behavior and is it's own trauma.

I am fine now as {(undisclosed male person person in my life)} I do not see often, but shoutouts, if you are in a relationship with a gaslighter, I hope you can get out or at least seek help. It is serious business. Best of luck!