Are You Abused?

Carol Burt
10 min readOct 7, 2019

Sometimes we hide it from ourselves.

Abuse can be so subtle people don’t recognize it while it is happening to them.

We think of abuse as a physical attack such as being beaten. Yet we can become so accustomed to emotional abuse that we barely notice. It can become a part of what we consider normal.

We may ignore it or try to cope in various unhealthy ways that would seem unconnected…

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Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.