Gaslighting 101: “That’s Not What Happened”

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It’s a textbook Reframe moment: the lie isn’t the problem — it’s the doubt it plants.

Gaslighting isn’t just lying — it’s psychological warfare dressed as concern.

In this episode of Think First, we unpack the tactics used to make you question what you saw, what you felt… even what you know. From politics to parenting, media to medicine, we expose how confident repetition replaces evidence — and how silence becomes compliance.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re the crazy one… you’re probably not.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
How do we know when we are being manipulated, not
with lies, but with doubt?
Gaslighting is more than justlying.
It's the act of slowlyreplacing your sense of reality
with someone else's version ofit.
It's not just what they say,it's how they say it With
confidence, with authority, withrepetition, until you stop

(00:31):
trusting your own instincts.
Gaslighting doesn't always soundlike a scream.
It often whispers.
You're overreacting.
That didn't happen.
You're imagining things.
So let's think first.
Where have we seen gaslightingIn politics?
The border is secure.

(00:51):
In war, we never said Iraq hadWMDs.
In medicine, you're fine.
It's just stress.
In media, it's misinformationto question the science.
In history, the founders werejust white supremacists In
family life.
Your child doesn't need to knowwhat you think.

(01:14):
We will handle it at school.
Gaslighting doesn't need tochange the facts.
It just needs to make youquestion your grip on them.
You don't need all the answers,but you should question the
ones you're handed.
I'm Jim Detchen and this isThink First from Gaslight 360.

(01:41):
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