Team Tony

Gaslighting is manipulating factual information to give the victim the impression that they cannot trust themselves. The character of Dr Tony Jones endured a lifetime of gaslighting and figuratively became a ghost before the character was ever killed off. Sure, contracts were negotiated, and he was just a foil for Frisco, Bobbie and Luke, at least. Yet only a long-term soap opera character could slowly, progressively decline from sometimes sensitive, sometimes self-righteous conviction and commitment into incomprehensible demoralization, and then, after subjecting others to maniacal, yet truthful and at times hilarious, fits of rage, become ever more entangled in unhealthy relationships in an exhaustive effort to rehabilitate himself.