I am 36 yrs male. I was working in IT/Software companies before I resigned in 2019-20 due to personal reasons and currently staying with Parents. It needs to be mentioned that parents are economically well-off and Senior Citizenship Maintenance may not apply. I have an younger brother aged 33 working abroad. In 2018, when he was in India for a brief period of time, there was a huge misunderstanding in the family and small tussle with brother. He left again to abroad in 2019. Because of the tussle when he was here, relationship with brother strained since he left. There was not much contact from him even though he was regularly in contact with my parents. He seemed to have informed my parents not to tell anything about him to me. Parents also started hiding matters about him to me and created a barrier.
I was deeply concerned about this rift in the family and told my parents not to widen the differences between us. I asked them to talk to my brother to placate him so that he leave off the old fights thereby good relations will be restored. However, not only did parents ignore my pleas but they also badmouthed about me to my brother causing more strain to the relationship.
From then on they conveniently started "changing/deflecting the narrative" that I was not interested in seeking any job so wasting time in these matters. They did not understand my goodwill concern of restoring relationships within family and brother and "buried" it deeply with the "deflected narrative" of my not being in a job. They started to talk in a very humiliating manner that you are useless, lazy etc etc. When I strongly and aggressively reacted to this "change of narrative" and humiliation they started saying that I am abusing elderly parents. Last year, when things started to get heated, they left abroad to my brother's place and stayed there for 6 months. I was provided an "weekly allowance" of Rs. 5000/- for which I had to go through lot of verbal abuse and humiliation before getting it. They mentioned that they are not legally entitled to give financial support and was asked to consider this economic abuse as an act of benevolence and they were teaching me value of money.
Recently (two months before), they secretly consulted a psychiatrist and I was abducted from home in the wee hours of the night, taken to a hospital and was forced with unnecessary treatments without my consent (injections, tablets etc) which I resisted. Now they are saying that they are going to put body guards at home with a false pretext of "their safety". They also say that they are going to unlawfuly evict me from home and be taken to some hostel.
In Western Psychological terms, all the above mentioned acts of Parents amounts to "gaslighting" — a form of emotional torture and psychological abuse involving invalidation, trivilisation, withholding, minimisation, denial, deflection, humiliation, countering the memory questioning the sanity and guilt-tripping.
In a world where legal system is tilted towards women and elderly, can a complaint or legal remedy be sought against Parents for their above abuse?
