Bringing Awareness: Coercive Control
🚫TRIGGER 🚫 Please note the goal of this article is to bring awareness from one survivor to another. What it is Coercive control is a pattern of behaviors used to dominate and control someone, often in intimate or close relationships. It’s not just about isolated incidents of abuse but a sustained, ongoing campaign to erode your independence, self-esteem, and sense of safety. Unlike more obvious forms of abuse, coercive control is often subtle and insidious, making it harder to recognize and more damaging over time. Key Aspects Here are some key aspects of coercive control: Isolation Coercive control typically begins with the abuser isolating the victim from friends, family, and support networks. This isolation serves to make the victim entirely reliant on their abuser for emotional support and information, which then creates a sense of powerlessness within the victim. Being isolated makes it harder for you to seek help or even recognize that something is wrong. They might claim ot