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r/emotionalabuse↗

Emotional Abuse Subreddit

A subreddit for people who are or were affected by emotional abuse. Share your stories and we can help each other overcome our pains, sometimes by the use of internet hugs.

57k subscribers550 posts / mo in Sep 2026454 authors / mosince 2013

r/emotionalabuse has 57k members (+25% over the last 12 months). It gets about 550 posts a month from 454 people. Top topics: Heartbreak Stories, Pain and Poetry and Domestic Abuse.

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Size and growth

How r/emotionalabuse has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+25%in 12 months · +4.1% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 202656k
Growing56k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+35%vs Sep 2025 · −2.7% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026550
BusierPeaked at 641 in May 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/emotionalabuse

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Heartbreak Stories0.2%
  2. Pain and Poetry0.1%
  3. Domestic Abuse<0.1%
  4. Dog Family Issues<0.1%
  5. Narcissistic Bosses<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Qualtrics
  2. Spotify
  3. love is respect
  4. Change
  5. Substack

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research