Thanks to The Bad Cat for the lead on this one…

Source: Workplace Mental Health Institute

Are YOU experiencing any of these signs as a regular citizen trying to exercise your rights to freedom?

Are those over you trying to…

1. Stop you seeing friends and family

2. Won’t let you go out without permission

3. Tell you what to wear

4. Monitor your phone or emails

5. Control the finances, or won’t let you work

6. Control what you read, watch and say

7. Monitor everything you do

8. Punish you for breaking the rules, but the rules keep changing

9. Tell you it is for your own good, and that they know better

10. Don’t allow you to question it

11. Tell you you’re crazy, and no one agrees with you

12. Call you names or shame you for being stupid or selfish

13. Gaslight you, challenge your memory or events, make you doubt yourself

14. Dismiss your opinions

15. Play the victim - If things go wrong, it’s all your fault.

These obvious signs of abuse were written about by Lucio Eastman and Micha Gartz at The American Institute of Economic Research.