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I'm an adult writing an essay about life after hearing the term "Narcissist Parent." I need some help with terminology/categorizing a specific situation from my past.
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So in this specific paragraph I've written, "This is what I've learned as an adult who is no longer beholden to parental demands of "because you're a kid and I said so." You do not owe anyone your time or attention. You can literally walk away from any situation or conversation you don't want to be a part of. No one has the right to keep you there. If they physically do, that's forcible confinement and that's illegal."

It's at this point, using the same sentence structure (if, then,) that I want to incorporate the example my father uses now that I live with him as an adult, as basically a live in home health aide. He gets angry and demands that I have a conversation RIGHT NOW and that I hear him out RIGHT NOW. I am expected to stand at attention and look at him, not display any kind of attitude in my face, voice, or body language, as each has gotten me screamed at in the past. In the past if I've tried to fight him on this point, if I've tried to walk away, he's said "you can stand there and listen to me, or you can go pack."

The only term I can think of to describe this is "emotional blackmail," but does it qualify as that? Is there a better term or category it might fall under?

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