Toxic or problematic, perhaps, but gaslighting is a specific term that means more than "bad" (or toxic), and I intended it in that very specific way. I think it

Toxic or problematic, perhaps, but gaslighting is a specific term that means more than "bad" (or toxic), and I intended it in that very specific way. I think it's a useful term because of this specificity, and because it helps to explain the very specific feeling of confusion that it instils in those it is used against.