Hi everybody, I am wondering if ANYONE knows ANYTHING about when severe, potentially life-threatening abuse occurs, when there has been little to no prior history of abuse.
I am in one myself, in which there was a history of severe emotional abuse, thru-the-roof temper, threats of hitting, being chased down to room and having to push them out and hold the door shut while they screamed at me/pounded on the door. (Btw, this is a parent)
Then things got suddenly way more dangerous and serious (they just snapped), it is obvious by so much of the behavior escalating. But they are not dumb enough to make blatant threats. It's like their rage is building and building and building and they're trying to keep it down and fight it, but like they are increasingly unable to, the rage increased, and they seem ready to brutally attack (and there were close-calls in the past).
I am realizing all the trouble with this kind of case in explaining it to people, getting family, police, therapists, ANYONE really, to understand what is happening. I realize I have very little knowledge about cases like this, although I know they exist.
Anyone who knows ANYTHING about cases like this, or like cases in which people are seriously injured/brutally attacked/even murdered by someone who may have been borderline physically abusive but did not hit them, I would so appreciate any insight/input on the subject and/or advice as to how to explain it to people/educate myself and others about this sort of thing.
(E.g. unfortunatley I told my therapist about some of it, and then expressed concern about what she writes in the records, like if they get pulled up in court or w/e if I have reason to call the police on this person at some point, and she said her notes would be vague, that she would say I "reported no contact". It's like, that's almost just worse that it's vague if that's what she's going tow rite, it's highlighting only an aspect that might be misguiding as insignficant.)