Resisting gaslighting is harder than you might imagine — what is the true nature of its persistent, long-term control?
4月 25, 2026菅原隆志40 min read
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Resisting gaslighting is harder than you might imagine. The reason is that, whether the perpetrator intends it or not, they exert a persistent, long-term form of control. And they do so in a cunning, calculating way. If you say it can continue for 10 or even 20 years, you can grasp how serious it is. It is more than just persistent. For example, if you were stalked online by a gaslighting perpetrator, it would be natural to endure defamation and slander from anonymous accounts for more than 20 years. Because it can be that persistent, it is also difficult to resist, and unless you have a strong conviction, your mind can break down from somewhere, you can become confused, and repeated denials can erode your psyche to the point that confusion turns into the worst kind of delusion. What you need is the mental resilience and conviction to withstand this. These arephenomena repeatedly confirmed in psychiatric medicine, clinical psychology, survivor testimony, and various harassment studiesand other fields.
1. Introduction
■ What is gaslighting?
Gaslighting isa form of psychological domination that deliberately distorts another person’s sense of reality, memories, and emotions, depriving them of confidence and judgment. Perpetrators use words, behavior, and sometimes even environmental manipulation to make victims think, “Maybe my perceptions are wrong,” or “Maybe I’m the abnormal one.”
This is not merely “lying” or a “difference of opinion.”It is continuous, strategic psychological violence that shakes the very axis of a person’s mind.
■ For those who have started to think, “Maybe I’m the one who’s crazy”
You may be feeling something like this:
“Somehow it always feels like I’m the one at fault.”
“But they say they didn’t mean it that way…”
“Maybe I’m just too sensitive.”
“Even if I tell someone, they’ll probably just say I’m being paranoid.”
If you’ve stayed silent because of that, it must have been incredibly painful. But let me say this clearly first.
The “sense that something is off” you felt is absolutely real.
■ “Gaslighting = paranoia” is an outdated idea
In the past, people who said they were being gaslit were often not taken seriously and were brushed off as “paranoid” or “overthinking it.” However, today,gaslighting is recognized in psychiatry and clinical psychology as a real structure of dominationand is treated as a serious issue in DV, moral harassment, workplace harassment, and cult-like relationships.
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