I see people saying that they gaslight other people but I don’t get it. Thank you in advance
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Gaslighting is a form of manipulation named after an old movie of the same name. In the movie, the husband would flicker the gaslights (an old way of lighting a house before modern electrical lighting) to mislead his wife, and insist that they had not flickered.
Gaslighting tends to involve a complete abandonment of truth. Saying things and claiming you never said them, doing things and claiming you never did them (despite the victim having seen it) and things of that nature. This leads the victim to slowly lose faith in their own perceptions and memory, in some cases actually causing the victim’s ability to remember things to deteriorate.
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