Pattern Breakers Collective
Gaslighting: When He Makes You the Problem
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"Gaslighting" was Merriam-Webster's word of the year in 2022, after searches for the term increased 1,740 percent. But as it became a buzzword, applied to everything from political disagreements to arguments between coworkers, something important got lost. The word stopped describing the specific, sustained, psychologically devastating thing that actually happens when someone…