Covert Systemic Abuse Diagnostic

Diagnostic Rubric for Covert Systemic Abuse

Reveal the Unseen. Name the Pattern. Reclaim Your Sanity.

This tool is a precise, piercing framework for identifying covert systemic abuse—whether in families, workplaces, institutions, or governments. It moves beyond personal blame or isolated harm and reveals the architecture of manipulation, extraction, and silencing that hides behind policies, protocols, and polite facades.

The Diagnostic Rubric helps you:

• Detect patterned harm masked as “normal”

• Understand how power enacts abuse without direct violence

• Identify DARVO, gaslighting, triangulation, and procedural control

• Recognize when you’re being groomed for compliance, not belonging

• Name the ways your reality has been bent to serve a hidden agenda

Rooted in trauma-informed analysis, social pattern mapping, and lived experience, this rubric is for anyone navigating systems that erode agency while claiming to care.

Whether you’re naming harm in your workplace, family, school, faith institution, or government, this is a compass for clarity and courage.

Use it to:

• Affirm what your body already knows

• Reclaim your language and perception

• Begin or deepen your exit from systemic entrapment

Includes:

Full rubric with behavior patterns, warning signs, and impact layers

Reflective questions for applying it to your own context