3. Is interrogation a category of verbal abuse? Interrogation is a form of diversion. If you are asked a question and then you are interrupted with another question, and then, just as you focus on that question, you are asked another question, and each question is expressed with urgency, you are being diverted from your train of thought over and over again. One woman who experienced interrogation said, “I felt like my brain was turned into a pretzel. I didn’t think of it as abuse. I thought I should try harder to answer the question, or to figure out what he was trying to ask. I wanted to
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