What are the characteristics of emotions? ... Anger does not go away and most often begins with a loss or threat of a loss, such as "loss of self esteem face threat of physical harm or violence loss of valued possessions, skills, or abilities valued role valued relationships - (Lerner, 1997). ... Everyone experiences emotions differently but all emotions have four general characteristics: internal changes, behavioral expressions, cognitive interpretation, and motivational tendencies. ...

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Domestic violence consists of acts that fall into one or more categories such as: emotional abuse, physical abuse and sexual abuse. ... However, this often transgresses to physical abuse. ... Physical abuse begins with excused "trivial contacts", which can involve rough play, pinching, pushing, jealous behavior, possessiveness, a bad temper and unpredictability. ... Barbara stated, "For me, it started with verbal abuse and with time it escalated to physical abuse. ... The abuser destroys the women's self-esteem by constantly abusing her verbally and gains control by becomi...

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Intense anxiety producing situations like this can manufacture certain psychological disorders and/or exaggerate already existing psychological characteristics. ... The beast was their inner fears and violence projected outward onto something physical, so that they didn't have to admit these things about themselves. ...

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