What is "Gaslighting"?
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This guy actually knows what this word means. Everyone else is using it incorrectly and the word had now taken on like 4 different new meanings. Thanks internet and misinformation
You've hit the nail on the head there. I hate to say it, but the whole "know your worth" tik Tok girls have made it to mean that anyone who disagrees with you is gaslighting you. So it comes in pretty any argument where one person thinks the other is being unreasonable or irrational about something. Suggesting you overreacted to not getting a good night text isn't gaslighting you into being the problem. Gaslighting is outright lying to someone to convince them that something that is happening, isn't.
I have been looking up and trying to define what gaslighting is. This is by far the best video I've found and I actually understand what the hell gaslighting is. My only question is why did I have to watch 19 other videos before I got to this one? lol.
Because the others are idiots
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Because he gave examples. Other videos go off on a tangent he got the point
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"Dont piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
Finally! I understand.
The more videos I watched explaining gaslighting the more confused I got!
Thankyou for keeping it simple! 🙏
So odd, I never knew what it meant. I’ve had people tell me that I’m gaslighting them but they themselves were gaslighting me.
Yes, THAT DOES HAPPEN!
Yeah, the phrase has unfortunately devolved into “if you’re bothered by my overreaction and generally shitty behavior, you’re a bad person”.
yeah I think it's turned into "minimizing people's emotions and making them feel like they are overreacting"
Nowadays people overuse and misuse words so much. I literally thought gaslighting meant a person intentionally starting unnecessary drama. Boy am I glad I did my research. Thank you for the great explanation.
Hey, I just want to say props on everything in this video. I especially like the background you chose. I have ADD and your background really helped me pay attention to you. Everything was clean and put in place. That helped me relax. Thank you.
I was so confused by this term because it seems like people nowadays often use it as a synonym for provoking someone, or egging someone on. Thanks for the explanation!
Its funny because I think the current definition of gaslighting means to make someone feel like their emotions should be less and that they are overreacting.
Thank you for the quick and to the point explanation and including examples!
FINALLY!! An explanation that explains, enough for me to understand. Thank you Sir!
Thank you for this less than 3 minutes explanation!
Great straight-to-the-point explanation. Thanks! 👍🏾
So this is the ACTUAL definition! Thank you.
I got out from a "friend" who was constantly saying me that I am crazy. Repeting many times something that happened in the past that proves me as mad.
Your video should be at the top of the search results. Other people’s explanations are terrible.
agreed!
I asked four people at work, whom used the term in a sentence. Then I was provided four different answers😅
What I meant by that is someone who constantly slanders another character verbal emotion abuse lies manipulation types are often either ego maniacs and or narcissistic they are a low form anyone who gas lights and or verbal or emotionally abuses someone talks
I question an adult that constantly talks bad about someone in general behind there back than after study people or a person like that I realize a they are a low form too they hate themself deep down inside and they are often either narcissistic or and egomaniac its disgusting too know that type of human is even out there
Was at the top of my search
you actually explained it unlike everyone else
Here's how to use the term "gaslighting" properly!
Bird up! But seriously. Love this video, really hated the top results for “what is gaslighting” but yours hits the money without focusing on real world politics.
Yes . I’m in my mid life and had the same social network of people I’ve known here locally since grade school gaslight me for 30 years. They have tried to get people to ask me out for coffee pretending to be my friend - but are looking for personal information to add into a running smear campaign. Asked people to gaslight me when I was in college. Always try to find out who I’m friends with and dating to do the same. A weird blacklist from their social group. I have no idea why. It turned very malevolent over the years.
THANK YOU! I was searching and searching for the origins of the term and you did it in a few seconds. Much appreciated!
I "like" click this ! Super good explanation! Thankyou. You have good music, too
I scrolled through 20 something videos all done by new wave feminists that did not actually understand what they were talking about before I found this video. Thank you for being the person to actually explain it in a way I could understand.
Many thank's for this excellent definition,I am now clear about this term.
Thank you so much for the video!
So it’s pretty much another word for manipulation.
It’s a very specific type of manipulation.
Never heard of it til now, i thnk im getting old
😅 I would love it if you would give the definition of dense I had a friend call me dense and then denied that he was being insulting
I shouldn't laugh but that's so funny.😂
Who remembers being Gaslighted by our older siblings and as an adult you cant believe they made you fall for that 😂. Now that we know what this means.
Thanks!
It's being used even more nowadays.
People are miss using the term more nowadays *
Thanks a lot for all your amazing well explained information, this is the best videoI found on Gaslighting till now. I learned a lot from your video. Thank you for making it very helpful and useful and providing thorough information.
Simple and excellent explanation with examples...I love it!
Just as I thought! We are being gaslit by the government!
Very helpful and easy to understand.
Thank you for summoning that up
Why is it suddenly so popular?
People copying each other because they think it makes them more cool
This is a great video. I love the explanation, so when does it change from Gaslighting to trying to show them a viewpoint they can’t seem to see? Because often in debates whenever the person seems to have found their own arguments contradictions or realize they’re in over their head they say they’re being gaslit.
It comes down to your intent.
I'm so glad iv found you to clarify gaslighting
So what is it if I tell my wife something, then she gets angry because I never told her, but it's my fault. But I know 100% I said what I said. Then she says I'm gaslighting her...
A misunderstanding. The gaslighter has to be intentionally trying to get a target to question reality.
You are amazing, thanks for clearing this up for me
Oh. I finally have a word for what my ex best friend always did. Idk why, but it occured to me that i knew the word, but couldn't say for sure its meaning. Turns out i know it all to well.
He gaslighting my kitchen.
You my man are a great teacher !
This is a word that I keep checking what it means, because it makes no sense to me. It is so frustrating that it is a phrase based on a movie title. I can never remember what it means.
The word narcissist comes from the greek god, Narcissus, who was beautiful. He was the River God and he fell in love with his reflection as seen in many paintings & other art.
My now ex gf was gaslighting me into thinking i had earing problems, i reach out to a professional payed 70€ to have an expertise and he said that i had a better earing than the average ppl. When confronted she shrugged it off saying meeh dont believe him, i cant be the one talking too quietly.
Gaslighting can go really far guys, even making you questions your own health
Anyone else ever been gaslighted into thinking that they’re gaslighting? Lmao
I’m gunna remember this to prove my gf wrong who actually gaslights me, thanks dawg🤣😂
Good to know the term originated from a movie title. Always wondered about that.
For You're next video presentation can you do the definition of the word "NEW SPEAK", I used to hear this word a lot a long time ago from other videos I've been watching but I like to hear your opinion on it thank you.
Thank you so much is Very helpful for me too Know About This Cause Some people Just love too Try too gaslight me But I Don't let Them get Away with it 💪💪 is important for you too Stand for yourself Always when you haft too
Funny when people gas light the definition of gas lighting, too feel educationally superior.
01:07 perfect example..👍
You take a problem to someonr and they turn the whole thing around making you out to be the problem. Unbelievable. They make you question your own reality. Its deadly and dangerous.
Thanks. Nice explanation.
they threw this word around a lot when i was in Springfield MO, jailing with Larry Hall and Randle Patrick Murphy
I was locked out of my room one night and 2 siblings said I locked the door myself. The door was repaired. I kept quiet and found out someone actually is doing it. Bcoz after the incident, when I get out to go to the bathroom I go back and move the knob to check and twice it can't be moved its, locked even when the door is still open.
There's extreme Gaslighting
Yet there's a more casual everyday gaslighting.
Not just narcissists are using this method some people too even they are obessed to do their own right decisions even the crowd spots them already for not being a real person.
The problem with the term is that it's been manipulated by high maintenance people to be pulled out during any argument when the other person suggests they're being unreasonable or irrational. Like you won't send a good night text one night, they'll get all funny about it, you apologise but suggest that they're being a bit silly getting so upset over something so minor and they'll say "don't gaslight me. I'm not the problem here. Just because I want to know my boyfriend is thinking about me!" That's not gaslighting. That's a difference in opinion over something. The examples matey boy here gave are gaslighting. They are completely different things.
Thank You.
It seems to just be interchangeable with “lying” most of the time.
Ah, sounds like my hunch was right that people are using this word a bit too liberally.
God bless you..🫡🇺🇲🙋🏾♀️
This is sick beyond my comprehension. Twisting another person’s reality for your own personal agenda is just sick!
My ex wife is an specialist on gaslighting, it comes from her mom and inherited to her sister too. I think my little daughter doesn't have it but her cousin girl does.
Fortunately she kicked me out of the relationship. Now I know what it is. I am worried for my daughter as she is surrounded by gaslighters. I am asking angels for guidance and protection. And to pull her out of there.
your daughter will fall for arab men and become muslim. Allah be with her.
So when you are fighting over something in the past both people are gaslighting each other because their reality is their reality? Lmao
this is a dangerous word. because it’s used a lot in things that can’t be proven . like an argument where one person things the other meant to say something different to what they meant … can’t prove what they meant to say or that you are right so how can that be gaslighting?
God bless you!
Where did the thought/thinking originate from though . the word for it came later .
Yeah I definitely don’t be doing this
So it's inception
Could any rhetoric technique or oratory skills be mistaken as gaslighting?
What happens when the person ignores the gas lighting? Is it harmful to not acknowledge gaslighting?
I honestly just wanted to understand
“Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss”
Vsauce got clones now 💀🙏
My husband will get mad and talk under his breath out loud and say certain things and I know I would hear him and even name calling at times in right immediately when I would hear it I'd say what you just say to me? He would tell me that I'm crazy I'm just hearing stuff and it's happened more than I can count!!
Damn I do this alot to my friends especially moving stuff around there house to make them look crazy 😂
If you complain that your neighbor is making loud noise, and your landlord questions your sanity, saying that your hearing the music in your head, then that's gaslighting.
Dang my mom has been doing this for years............
What is the difference between a debate and gaslighting? Is there an intentional lie in gaslighting?
Here after that Matty Healy’s song
Where is your definition taken from?
Like religis. They are trying to convince you there is actually a god somewhere and will always "love" you
You mentioned politics. It's become so ubiquitous in politics and many other fields that most people don't even recognise it as such, even moreso in relationships.
As for the play, there was actually also two movies made around the same time. The 1944 film with Ingrid Bergman, but also a British version in 1940, which I personally think is superior to the 1944 movie. Probably not as well known as most probably haven't heard of Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard.
great
Am I the only one who's just concentrating on the Batman poster?
My ex gaslighted me so bad I had a mental breakdown. Very terrible grown boy. He was nasty and I predict he is bisexual struggling with his sexual identity because he’s from a religious background. Sad!
I’ve been gaslighted a million times I would like to gaslight a few people
Example south park trying to tell us that the black boy is named Tolkein instead of Token
Should of looked this up years ago.
So if someone gaslights, you can respond with why are you always projecting 😅
Ah yes, when my wife swears she gave me the keys that she can’t find . To later find them still hooked to her dress. Blames me until she can find them. Im always at fault.
What is it called when the victim is actually in the wrong?
I think it's a term that's over and incorrectly used by redditors. My wife accused me of gaslighting last night which is why I'm here. She accused me of stealing the majority of our bed covers while we were sleeping. I smiled and said "nope, I woke up and you had most of the covers!". In my mind I was being playful. I had zero intentions of being malicious. I'm not a psychopathic narcissist trying to make her feel crazy. I simply woke up and she had some of the covers, so I jokingly accused her of being the one who stole them. I was smiling because I thought it was obvious that I wasn't being serious. Real talk, could this really be considered mental abuse? I've already apologized for making her feel this way, but deep down I wonder if this really was gaslighting. I feel like actual gaslighting would be toxic, like purposely making your wife question her mental health by constantly hiding her car keys or something (which I would never, ever do).
So it’s basically what people in all relationships do 😂
ahhh now i know what it means...i guess people have been using it wrong
Wait, it doesn't have anything to do with pyromania?
This guy tried it on me cause I failed his car inspection.. game over man go change your lights.. didn't k ow that's what he was doing...I just knew he was wrong and decietfull an I wanted no part of that..
I was here to understand how to turn on my bbq