How to Escape From Mental Abuse

Escaping from mental abuse can be one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. Nobody should have to live with abuse and only you have the power to change your life for the better. There may not be any scars or bruises, but the pain from mental abuse leaves deep wounds within a person.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

1. Start a journal of all the mental abuse that you're enduring. Having a log of these events will help you in a case against the abuser, especially if there are children involved.
2. Create a network of family, friends and councilors that you trust before you leave the abuser. You need their support and resources to help you get out and stay out of an abusive relationship.
3. Gather money, clothes, legal documents, phone numbers and a plan so that you're ready when the urgency of leaving arrives. Keep these items in the car so they are available when you need them.
4. Consider going to a shelter if there's nowhere else to turn. The workers at these shelters are experts at aiming the abused in the right directions. They can also provide you with all your basic needs.
5. Have a restraining order filed against the abuser if there is fear that he can turn violent. Ask a councilor or friend to speak with the abuser and inform him that the relationship is over.
6. Take some time to heal and seek counseling for yourself. Realize that life is too short to be in a bad relationship and there are people out there willing, ready and able to help you.