The Effects of Psychological Abuse on Emotional Responses

"She'd say some really disturbing things about how he held her, my partner and his dad hostage in their home," she says. "The memory of her eyes still sends me with a frightening chill down my spine" The woman who had been the driving force for the insanity behind the behavior became increasingly controlling. Psychological abuse can trigger emotional responses in very unpredictable and disturbing ways.