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Gaslighting: The Narcissist’s Most Dangerous Weapon

Waleed Ahmed
12 min readDec 10, 2024

You will know what gaslighting is, where gaslighting can occur, what gaslighting does to your mind, 32 tactical elements of gaslighting, plus a few common gaslighting phrases.

Gaslighting is psychological violence.

Narcissists (and psychopaths) selfishly want to dominate everyone and everything. Gaslighting is one of the narcissists’ most important and effective domineering techniques. In practice, gaslighting is a dangerous psychological weapon (psychological warfare).

Gaslighting is a psychological manipulation technique, a form of insidious and elaborate brainwashing, a pattern of disgusting and abusive behaviours with the intention of not only influencing you, but completely breaking you down as a human being and then controlling you.

The technique is frighteningly effective, and psychologically devastating (much worse than you might think).

Through this technique, the narcissists succeed in making you an emotional and intellectual slave, a prisoner, and you become completely dependent on the narcissists in your thinking and in your emotions. Narcissists strive to hold you forever. They mould you and dictate your reality, without you realizing it yourself. You live in their fantasy world (where the narcissists set the rules and the standards).

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Waleed Ahmed
Waleed Ahmed

Written by Waleed Ahmed

I'm Waleed Ahmed, and I'm passionate about content related to software development, 3D design, Arts, books, technology, self-improvement, Poetry and Psychology.

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