The Effects of Abuse on Emotional Intelligence

verbally abused children may harm themselves against the pain, which only lessens their already impaired ability to manage negative emotion and self-soothe. Emotional intelligence is basically your emotional IQ. It's your EQ. And that means how many emotions are you have access to? Because a lot of people will result to screaming and yelling and anger as an emotion. So some people don't have a very strong emotional vocabulary, especially if they've had to deal with abuse.