Post 4: “You Have Shit for Brains” — Verbal Abuse Disguised as Personality
💬 “You have shit for brains.”
💬 “You’re so stupid it’s painful.”
💬 “Are you even capable of thinking?”
🧨 These aren’t jokes. These are weapons.
🚩 What’s Really Happening?
This is not “just how they talk.”
This is not “their sense of humor.”
This is verbal degradation, and it’s a form of psychological abuse.
If someone talks to you like this regularly, it’s not about what you did —
it’s about how they want you to feel.
💬 Worthless
💬 Powerless
💬 Dependent
💬 Confused
🧠 Psychological Tactic at Play: Verbal Belittling + Identity Erosion
These kinds of attacks aren’t slips of the tongue.
They’re deliberate assaults on your intelligence, your dignity, and your sense of self.
When repeated, they:
- Lower your self-esteem
- Create a toxic baseline of communication
- Condition you to believe you deserve mistreatment
Over time, this kind of language reshapes your inner dialogue — and that’s exactly what abusers want: to live inside your head, long after they’ve spoken.
😔 Verbal Abuse Leaves Invisible Scars
The brain reacts to verbal abuse the same way it reacts to physical pain.
Repeated insults can light up your pain pathways, activate your amygdala, and destabilize your sense of safety.
Being called “stupid” by someone you trusted doesn’t just hurt — it rewires your nervous system to expect harm in intimate spaces.
❤️🩹 For Survivors: You Are Not What They Called You
You are not an insult.
You are not their projection.
And you are not whatever they said in their ugliest moments.
You are smart.
You are whole.
You are healing.
💡 Affirmation:
“I reject the names I was called by those who needed me to feel small.
My intelligence, intuition, and worth are intact.
I am rebuilding the way I speak to myself — with truth, tenderness, and power.”
