Ep. 44 - What We Learned From Gaslighting

Barb Knows Best

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, Barb and Michelle discuss Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022: gaslighting! According to Merriam-Webster, searches for gaslighting were up 174% during the course of the year. In this conversation, Barb and Michelle dive into their personal stories of being gaslit, lessons they learned, and how we can start to spot the signs of a gaslighting manipulation early on.

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Episode Notes:

Gaslighting - A psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality or memories, and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability and a dependency on the perpetrator.

Gaslighting is emotional abuse.

Gaslighting is a personality disorder.

Gaslighting starts with overly nice and kind behavior.

Phrases to look out for in Gaslighting:

I was just joking. You need to learn how to take a joke.
It’s not a big deal.
You’re overreacting.
You are too sensitive.
You’re the problem.
I would never do that.
I would never say something like that.
That never happened.
I’m concerned about your memory.
You’re crazy.
I can never do anything right be you. You’re not so perfect either.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Hello friends of the pod. Welcome back to a Barb knows best. The
0:19.6	most happiest place on earth. Yes.
0:23.2	Move over Disney World.
0:24.3	Here we are.
0:26.1	I am your co-host Michelle Marros,
0:27.9	as for always, and I'm here with my mom Barb.
0:32.2	Hi everyone. Barb. Hi everyone.
0:33.0	Hello.
0:34.0	Hi.
0:35.0	We are feeling extra bright-eyed and bushy-tilled today
0:39.0	because we just got back from an actual vacation.
0:42.0	Actually the voice I just used to say hi Michelle. got back from an actual vacation.
0:42.6	Actually the voice I just used to say,
0:44.6	hi Michelle sounded like Minnie Mouse.
0:46.6	Oh, so we are in Disney World then.
0:48.0	Maybe.
0:48.8	Okay.
0:50.1	Yes, we had a nice vacation, we had a nice time.
0:53.2	Yeah, and it really goes to show when you hit the pause, change your scenery, give yourself a reset it really changes a lot for the old mental health
1:09.0	I love what you just said give to change the scenery because I think that's, I mean, that was huge for us.
1:14.8	I was going to say it was huge for us, huge for me. We went to Southern California and it's 45 at night and 70 during the day.
1:23.0	They were able to wear a sweater.
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