I have to say that I was wondering the exact same thing and was thinking of asking why it wasn't there. This is not meant to be a stab at anyone, it's probably just my PTSD overreacting, but it kind of made me feel like my abuse wasn't valid yet again. My emotional/mental abuse was always brushed off as not that bad, even though it has messed me up so much, people always think straight away that it was physical or sexual and when they find out most of it wasn't they suddenly don't care. A lot of people didn't help me when I was being abused because it obviously wasn't 'that bad'. I'm very ashamed to admit to the type of abuse I received because I feel like I couldn't even be abused good enough to be validated.

I'm really sorry if that sounds bad, I would just really like to see mental/emotional/verbal abuse on the list. I went through it 3 times trying to find something that was suited to me.