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Abuse Continuum
The program uses the following definitions in our classes:
- Anger: an emotional reaction or response
- Abuse: words or actions used to hurt, control or dominate others
- Rage: a potentially destructive expression of suppressed anger
Evaluate the motive you have for expressing anger or rage. You may think you are
expressing anger when, in fact, you are attempting to control or change another person.
What is Abuse?
Abuse usually begins as emotional abuse. By that we mean we attempt to change or
control others through the use of words or actions that are not physically damaging.
When that form of abuse begins to lose its effectiveness, we attempt to change or control
others through physical means. Usually, the physical abuse begins, as did the emotional, in
a small way and increases over time. Sexual abuse, like the other forms of abuse, begins in
a small way and increases over time into a larger problem.
"I have learned to share my feelings."
| | - Terri |
"The group has opened awareness towards what can trigger my impatience, which can lead me to anger"
| | - Patti |
"People ask me about the group, and how it helps. It helps by sharing my experience with other women in the group, and the other women sharing theirs."
| | - Evelyn |
"I'm more relaxed because I know now how to handle my anger."
| | - Annie |
"Coming to Dr. Laura's class has helped me see my patterns when I feel that I'm about to get angry. I try not to go in that direction and use my energy on something more constructive and less violent."
| | - Robin |
"This group has helped to think about myself a lot more and to be calmer."
| | - Susan |
On our Violence Continuum page, we have a list to identify
the level and degree of violence you have experienced. Pay attention to how far on these continuums
you have gone and how you have acted in a variety of ways on each continuum. Notice too, that
many of the things you have done are things that have been done to you.
Take the Anger Quiz
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