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4 Types of Emotionally Abusive Behaviour By Warren Fowler When you think of abusive behaviour, the first thought that comes to mind is physical abuse. However, people can have a destructive effect on one another without causing a single bruise. Emotionally abusive behaviour is a serious issue, and it can cause severe consequences to your psychological health. The victims of emotionally destructive behaviour are not always aware of the abuse. They sense that something bad is happening, but they are confused. This situation can go on for years… decades, even. Keith Lust, MD of Edugeeks Club continues, " The recovery is hard. The victim must face their trauma, make sense of it and take steady steps toward rediscovering their self-confidence. Everything starts with recognition. You must recognize a problem, so you can solve it.” Let’s go through the most common types of emotionally abusive behaviour, so it will be easier for you to recognize it from now on. 1. “You’re ...

In 2010, photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher published a book of remarkable images that captured the honeybee in an entirely new light. By using powerful scanning electron microscopes, she magnified a bee's microscopic structures by hundreds or even thousands of times in size, revealing startling, abstract forms that are far too small to see with the naked eye. Now, as part of a new project called “Topography of Tears,” she’s using microscopes to give us an unexpected view of another familiar subject: dried human tears. “I started the project about five years ago, during a period of copious tears, amid lots of change and loss—so I had a surplus of raw material,” Fisher says. After the bee project and one in which she’d looked at a fragment of her own hip bone removed during surgery, she’d come to the realization that “everything we see in our lives is just the tip of the iceberg, visually,” she explains. “So I had this moment where I suddenly thought, ‘I wonder what a tea...