That never happened. You must be imagining it. Everyone agrees with me. You're overreacting.

Wow, what's it like to be insane? If these sound like a familiar

refrain you may have been the target of gas lighting. Welcome back to

savvy psychologist. I'm to savvy psychologist.

I'm your host Dr. Jade Wu, and every week I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research,

a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment.

Today on the show we talk about gas lighting.

Specifically, we talk about five tactics that gaslators use

and what you can do about it.

The term gas lighting is blowing up like, well, a lighter thrown into a puddle of gas.

A form of emotional abuse, gas lighting is dominating the headlines. It's all over Twitter and has been

thrown around by everyone from pundits to colonists to late night comics and of course by psychologists.

The term comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman, who in a spooky

everything is connected moment won a golden globe for her role.

In Gaslight, Bergman plays a wife Paula, whose reality is slowly being undermined by her supposedly her supposedly

his nefarious goal is to have her

institutionalized as insane

so he can gain access to her fortune.

The title comes from Gregory's habit of secretly

digging through the attic for her hidden jewels. When he creeps upstairs and

turns on the lights in the attic, the rest of the gas lights in the house dim

accordingly, making Paula suspicious.

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