[header] How to deal with emotional or verbal abuse while depressed [title] Learn to identify emotional abuse. [step] If you are not sure if what you are experiencing is emotional abuse, then take a moment to consider how you are being treated or talk it over with someone you trust. Emotional abuse may involve yelling, humiliation, threats and isolation, exclusion, and even denying that abuse is taking place at all. 
[title] Identify how you want to be treated. [step] You probably have a general idea of how you would like to be treated by others.