manipulate
[muh-nip-yuh-leyt]
verb (used with object), manipulated, manipulating.
1. To manage or influence skilfully, especially in an
unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
2. To handle, manage, or use, especially with skill,
in some process of treatment or performance: to manipulate a large tractor.
3. To adapt or change (accounts, figures, etc.) to suit
one's purpose or advantage.
4. Medicine/Medical. to examine or treat by skilful
use of the hands, as in palpation, reduction of dislocations, or changing the position
of a foetus.
I thought
that I’d put the definition there because manipulation is something that can
occur without you even knowing – or realising – it. And maybe someone will read
this post and realise what is being done to them and seek the right help that
they need to make it stop. And this is the point of my post – I had no idea
when I was being manipulated (the Police, and mental health professionals have
also referred to it as grooming which, I realise, is different but the two are
linked so closely that I’d say both occurred. To me).
