just one of the reasons i so admire oprah

[rebeccaC]

ny….thankfully there are many people who haven’t had unwanted verbal or physical harassment directed towards them…maybe I’m too sensitive to this but for me being unaware doesn’t excuse a lack of trying to understand what others feel going through intimidating, degrading and/or humiliating experiences. One of my interests in volunteering on sex-trafficking issues is seeing the depth of personal strength that can be released through caring help. compassion ftw!

Thinking oprah is smart enough to see the large life disruption and brutal criticism that comes with politics……and also how it could affect her brand. That brand gives her the ability to reach a very large audience with speeches like at the golden globes. She’s got a good life as it is.

[Crankin]

Yes, many, many people, educated people, are unaware of the impact of any of these types of abuse. From my vantage point as a therapist who mostly deals with trauma, it seems like a good proportion of the population associates trauma only with the military. While people recognize physical abuse/domestic violence, they have no idea that chronic verbal abuse is more prevalent and more harmful than a one time incident of physical or sexual abuse (based on a study of 14,000 older adolescents and young adults). They have no idea that financial control is a form of abuse.
The biggest part of the work I do with survivors of DV is psycho-education to teach and convince them that verbal abuse is DV.