What is Social Abuse?
Exactly what is social abuse?
Perpetrators of social abuse restrict a person from spending time with family and friends, and engaging in social activities. By isolating them from their support networks, the perpetrator is seeking to maintain power and control. Social abuse is behaviour that seeks to cut you off from your family, friends, or community. It could also include a person or people trying to harm your relationships with others. Men and women who are socially abusive may possibly also endeavor to make you look bad or damage your reputation. Social abuse can consist of things done in the home, in public, over the phone, or on the internet and social media.
There may be a pattern to the behaviour that takes place again and again. Occasionally other types of abuse are going on at the same time. If this kind of abuse is being used to frighten and control you it may be domestic or family violence.
With no network of friends and family for assistance, a person can find it very hard to leave an abusive relationship.
Signs of social abuse
Social abuse can include:
Perpetrators of social abuse restrict a person from spending time with family and friends, and engaging in social activities. By isolating them from their support networks, the perpetrator is seeking to maintain power and control. Social abuse is behaviour that seeks to cut you off from your family, friends, or community. It could also include a person or people trying to harm your relationships with others. Men and women who are socially abusive may possibly also endeavor to make you look bad or damage your reputation. Social abuse can consist of things done in the home, in public, over the phone, or on the internet and social media.
There may be a pattern to the behaviour that takes place again and again. Occasionally other types of abuse are going on at the same time. If this kind of abuse is being used to frighten and control you it may be domestic or family violence.
With no network of friends and family for assistance, a person can find it very hard to leave an abusive relationship.
Signs of social abuse
Social abuse can include:
- keeping track of someone’s phone calls and emails
- choosing which friends and family members your partner can talk to and spend time with
- frequently criticising your partner’s friends and family
- not letting your partner to meet or spend time with neighbors
- moving the person far away so they can not reach family or friends
- verbally and/or physically abusing them in public or in front of other people
- Preventing you from seeing friends, family, or other people
- Not allowing you outside your home, room, or accommodation facility
- Not permitting you to participate in social and community activities
- Requiring to know everywhere you have been or are going
- Wanting to know everyone you have seen or are planning to see
- Monitoring or interfering with your mail, phone, email or social media
- Revealing private photos or videos of you online with no your permission
- Using social media or the internet to spread lies or harmful information concerning you
- Telling lies about you to friends and family or trying to turn others against you
- Deliberately doing things to make you miss, or be late for, events, appointments or meetings
- Purposely doing things to make you look bad or embarrass you in front of others
- Limiting access to your car, other forms of transport, wheelchair, or mobility aids.
