Verbal abuse.

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In general, people do not know why a healthy relationship becomes unhealthy. It happens every day. Usually, because one of the individuals in the relationship uses name-calling to solve their problems, one can especially find that name-calling, which is common in relationships, has a sever toll on the relationship. Doctors are still trying to find out why people use name-calling to solve there problems. Do they not know it can cause mental damage or even death? There are many reasons why verbal abuse kills a healthy relationship, and the effects can be felt immediately as well as in the future.

Verbal abuse can turn a healthy relationship into an unhealthy relationship at any time but only for serious reasons. At its worst, unhealthy relationships can also be a cause of isolation. Not surprisingly, the tensions and the arguments in a relationship can cause depression. Reasons they might uses for an excuse to verbally attack someone is that they only trying to express themselves or trying to blow off steam.

According to Beams, "situations involving verbal abuse, the abusers focus on their intent, and not the effect, of their action." Relationships do not die over night. However, relationships die off bit by bit because of repetitive, futile habits of fighting which gradually cause the spouse to be look at as a source of frustration and pain rather then pleasure and support. With these short term effects there are also long-term effects. Verbal abuse affects the amygdala, an almond- shaped cluster of nuclei located in the brain's emotional control center, that nebulous to respond quickly to danger-say to step out of the way of a swerving car. Nevertheless, repeated verbal abuse causes the amygdala to signal danger even when there is no apparent threat. Constant verbal abuse can...