Are you experiencing domestic abuse?

Includes hitting, kicking, pushing, slapping, spitting and damaging your property.

Including mind games, isolating you from others, stalking you and blaming you for their behaviour.

Including making you do things you don’t want to, videoing you or sharing images against your will or without your knowledge.

Including threats, humiliation and intimidation designed to make a person dependent by isolating them from support, exploiting them, depriving them of independence and regulating their everyday behaviour.

Some common examples of coercive behaviour are:

• Isolating you from friends and family
• Depriving you of basic needs, such as food
• Monitoring your time
• Monitoring you via online communication tools or spyware
• Taking control over aspects of your everyday life, such as where you can go, who you can see, what you can wear and when you can sleep
• Depriving you access to support services, such as medical services
• Repeatedly putting you down, such as saying you’re worthless
• Humiliating, degrading or dehumanising you
• Controlling your finances
• Making threats or intimidating you

Can include taking your money, not paying the bills, withholding money for household items, getting you into debts and not letting you work or study.

Can include calling you names, making you feel worthless and using your children against you.

Can include patterns of fixated and obsessive behaviour which is repeated, persistent, intrusive and causes fear of violence.

Can include unwanted behaviour from someone else that makes you feel distressed, humiliated or threatened.

Online platforms are increasingly used to perpetrate domestic abuse and can include behaviours such as monitoring of social media profiles or emails, abuse over social media such as Facebook or Twitter, sharing intimate photos or videos without your consent, using GPS locators or spyware.