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October 24, 2013

In His Own Words: Victimized by Victim Support Advocates

It’s day 24 of Domestic Violence Awareness Month for men and boys, the invisible victims of domestic violence. Today’s In His Own Words is an example of the systemic abuse to which men and boys are frequently subjected. It’s also an example of how many women use victimhood (real or imagined) as a form of […]

Filed Under: Abuse, False Allegations, Negative Advocates Tagged With: domestic violence awareness month, misandry, Professional Victims, sexism

May 29, 2013

Abused Men: How Covert Abuse Begins, Part One

This week on the Shrink4Men Forum, members began a thread titled, The Covert Abuse Handbook. In the thread, forum members share their experiences of abuse and the abuse they have witnessed beloved brothers, sons and friends suffer. Abusive personalities typically follow similar patterns of behavior. Men and women who frequent Shrink4Men often remark upon how alike […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Dating, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Relationships, Sexual Abuse Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive women, covert abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, Professional Victims

March 8, 2012

Crazy Bitch the Musical! The Professional Victim’s Narrative and Why She Won’t Be Different with the Next Guy

Why did she treat me so bad? How can she move on to the next guy so quickly? What does he have that I don’t have? What if I’d only done this instead of that ? What if I’d said x instead of y? Did she ever really love me? She says she’s never been […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, Healing, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Relationships Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive women, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, dating, healing, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, obsession, Professional Victims, relationships, repetition compulsion, rumination, scripts, sociopathic women, sociopathy

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