If you are a professional in the system, Please STOP calling abuse victims ‘hysterical’ or saying that they are ‘in denial’ if they haven’t escaped the quicksand of coercive control yet. We need to talk about how therapeutic language is being weaponized to blame VICTIMS instead of holding ABUSERS accountable. When we call survivors ‘paranoid,’ ‘needy,’ or say ‘it takes two to tango’—we’re literally shifting blame OFF the perpetrator and onto the person being harmed. This double-speak, as I call