Coping up with 7 Psychological Manipulations

This bulletin discusses 7 psychological manipulation tactics and how to cope with them. The tactics include gaslighting, victimhood, guilt trapping, pretending ignorance, negative humor, projection, and constant criticism. To counter these tactics, it is suggested to disengage from gaslighting, not get emotionally involved in victimhood, respond with empathy to guilt trapping, judge actions not intentions, remain calm and ask questions to address negative humor, remove oneself from projection, and simply say thank you to constant criticism. These tactics can help in self-construction and dealing with manipulations around us. Namaskar, hello and welcome to this special bulletin of Reaching India Self-Construction. Today in this bulletin we will be bringing you 7 psychological manipulations which we all come across on a regular basis and how to cope up with them. The first and the foremost psychological manipulation which we encounter is gaslighting. Now gaslighting is using denial, lying, misinformation and contradiction to make you doubt your sanity, memory and perception. What you can do about it is to disengage and just walk away from such gaslighting tactics. The second psychological manipulation which we encounter is the phenomenon of victimhood. It is designed to exploit your goodwill, guilty conscience, protective and nurturing instinct in order to benefit personally. In order to cope up with this tactic, this psychological manipulative tactic of victimhood, we should not get emotionally involved or we can let go of the relationship. The third psychological manipulation tactic is guilt trapping. It is a passive aggressive way to remind you of something bad you did in order to make the peddler of this tactic want to make up for it. So what we can do about it is to respond with empathy but trust your intuitions. The fourth psychological manipulation tactic is to pretend ignorance. People try to play dumb in order to get away with behavior or things. We can judge the actions but not the intention. So moving forward negative humor is the fifth psychological manipulation tactic which we encounter where people make critical remarks disguised as sarcasm or humor to make you feel inferior or less secure. We can remain calm, smile and put that person in the spotlight by asking questions to get away with this psychological manipulation tactic of negative humor. Projection is yet another psychological manipulation tactic whereby people criticize others for things they do themselves as well. We should not take the bait and remove ourselves from the arena to get over with this tactic. And the last and most important is the constant criticism tactic. People constantly marginalize, ridicule and dismiss you to make you feel inferior and to make them feel superior. Just say thank you and get on with your life. So these were some of the seven psychological manipulation tactics which we can get over and embark on the path of self-construction. So we hope that this will become handy tool in order to counter so much of manipulations which are happening all around us. We will be back again with yet another bulletin of self-construction. Till then Namaskar.