When Abuse Has No Name I disclosed to my line manager. I spoke to colleagues. Some of them were trained Mental Health First Aiders. But no one, including me, knew what coercive and controlling behaviour was. I had not really thought about domestic abuse at all. And so what I described was treated as stress, as relationship difficulty, as something I needed to manage privately while I got on with my job. That experience shaped the work I do now. Because the problem was not tha