Was I Tortured?

[Done182]

So I was never whipped or beaten over and over but I was hooked up to a lie detector and forced to renounce my identity and reaffirm a new one under the threat of beatings and was deprived of food, water and usage of a toilet until I did. Was this torture? I just want to be accurate when describing my childhood xx.

 

[Hvergelmir]

In everyday speech; yes, you can rightfully call that torture.

With you aiming for accuracy, I got curious about the definition, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_torture

The technical answer varies by jurisdiction, but often requires the perpetrator to be part of an oppressive organization: a government, institution, or similar. It also tend to involve systematic and repeated infliction of acute pain.

Regardless, it amounts to serious abuse. I hope you'll manage to leave it behind.

 

[Dejected 55]

It might be torture. It's definitely abuse. I feel like the fine line between the two isn't wroth arguing when either is horrible and no one should have to endure.

 

[Done182]

In everyday speech; yes, you can rightfully call that torture.

With you aiming for accuracy, I got curious about the definition, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_torture

The technical answer varies by jurisdiction, but often requires the perpetrator to be part of an oppressive organization: a government, institution, or similar. It also tend to involve systematic and repeated infliction of acute pain.

Regardless, it amounts to serious abuse. I hope you'll manage to leave it behind.

The torturer/abuser was a scientologist and used scientology principles against me.