Abuse: Physical

  • Push, slap, bite, kick, spit at or strangle you
  • Use a weapon against you or your children
  • Drive recklessly with you and/or your children 
  • Prevent you from leaving any space when you want to go
  • Handle your body roughly during caregiving
  • Take away or restrict your access to assistive devices (wheelchair, walker, glasses, hearing aids, etc.)
  • Threaten to use your mental health history against you in court or medical settings
  • Withhold your medication or give you too much of that medication
  • Prevent you from accessing healthcare by refusing to give you money for co-payments, making it difficult or impossible to see a healthcare provider or taking steps to have you taken off the family’s medical insurance 
  • Prevent you from calling 911 for law enforcement or medical attention
  • Interfere with your sleep 
  • Manipulate or force you to do things you are not comfortable with
  • Force you to participate in strenuous activities (workouts, hikes, moving heavy items, etc.) when you don’t want to or when it is medically unsafe to do so
  • Interfere with your participation in a substance misuse recovery program