5 Phrases Manipulators Use to Make You Feel Crazy

Five phrases. That is genuinely all it takes to make a rational, grounded, self-aware person begin to doubt their own mind. These phrases work not because they are clever or because the people who use them are brilliant — they work because they target something specific: the gap between what you know you experienced and your ability to defend that experience under social pressure. Once you know these five phrases, you'll never hear them the same way again. And more importantly, you'll stop letting them do their job.