Words like gas lighting, narcissist, trauma, and toxic are commonly used today in social media reels, videos and posts. But many times, we use these words in everyday situations without really understanding their true meaning.
As a result, there is a danger of trivializing serious psychological experiences and problems.
For example, take the word gas lighting. Real gas lighting is a situation where one person makes...
The word 'gas lighting' was first used in the 1944 film 'Gaslight'. In that movie, the husband manipulates his wife’s sense of reality and mentally breaks her down. From this, we understand that gas lighting is a situation in which one person makes another person question their awareness, memory or sense of reality, thereby subjecting them to continuous psychological abuse. Gas lighting is a...