7 ways to deal with gaslighting

Public or collective gaslighting. Many women experience the effects of public gaslighting, also called collective gaslighting, when statements by a public figure or an ordinary person that are widely shared on social media can lead women as a collective to second-guess themselves. In her paper “Gaslighting, Misogyny and Psychological Oppression,” Cynthia A. Stark, Ph.D., shares the example of two high school football players who raped an unconscious 16-year-old at a party and then received sympathy from a CNN reporter who described them as “two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believed their lives fell apart.”