The Mistrust and Abuse Schema: Feeling Like a Target of Abuse

  Do you expect the people around you to hurt you? In this article, we’ll talk about the fact that expecting that you’re going to be hurt, humiliated, manipulated, made fun of, or taken advantage of in some way can be hurtful. Indeed, if you feel that you’re a target of constant abuse by others, you pay a high emotional cost. In the early 2000s, Jeffrey Young developed schema therapy (ST). It’s an intervention aimed at clients who have problems defining what they feel and what’s happening to them due to the fact that they feel blocked. For Young, a…