Empowerment: protect yourself from narcissists, sociopaths and other toxic types

2021-06-21 15:56:04 #narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuserecovery #narcissistcabusesurvivor #narcissistcpersonalitydisorder #narcissism #selfcare #toxicrelationships #toxicpeople #empowerment
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2021-06-17 20:45:26 𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗳 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴.

This is not just in your mind: if something feels off, it probably is. Trust your intuition. If you feel exhausted after interacting with a certain person, if you don't feel safe, if you have the impression that your "no" is not respected, if you don't feel at ease, if you feel like somebody is trying to test your boundaries, or if you simply feel like something is "off", trust that feeling. Your body can pick up on signals and red flags - it's a survival strategy. Don't wait until it's too late. Don't gaslight yourself.

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2021-06-15 21:47:50 While we can have compassion for the limitations of people with narcissistic personality disorder, we need to remind ourselves that cutting off contact, or at least limiting personal interactions with these disordered characters when it is not possible to establish full no contact is what is necessary to prevent ourselves from being further abused.

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2021-06-14 17:41:12 The use of guilt-tripping and other manipulation techniques that aim at coercing people into doing what they do not want to do are boundary violations.

When such experiences occur during childhood, your ability to understand that you have a right to have and maintain your own boundaries is severely affected.

In fact, if your boundaries weren’t respected in your childhood, you may believe that you don’t even have a right to have them.

Setting and maintaining personal boundaries isn’t selfish. It’s self-care.

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2021-06-12 15:35:19 If not used in a destructive way, anger can help victims detach from their abuser. Anger can inspire people to make changes in the world, to stand up, take action, and do extraordinary things.

In Maya Angelou's words:

“If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”

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2021-06-10 02:47:29 It is very common to see the narcissist devaluing and diminishing others while overemphasizing his or her own qualities, abilities, skills, accomplishments, etc.

A common tactic used by these broken, toxic people involve using covert put-downs disguised as "jokes".

Empathic people often remain confused, ashamed and hurt as they don't understand why the narcissist is making such cruel "jokes" to diminish them in front of everyone, and why certain individuals -those competing for the narcissist's attention and approval- are laughing at these attempts to diminish someone's value, thus enabling the toxic behaviour.

Survivors often say: "I didn't know what to say at that moment... so I stayed silent. I wish I said something."

Other survivors say that they started to explain and justify themselves, only to feel even more vulnerable after the interaction.

Here are some sentences you can use to disarm a toxic person attempting to devalue, criticize, or diminish you:

"Interesting."
"I don't understand what you are referring to."
"I don't understand what you are talking about."
"I wonder why you might be feeling that way?"

Act uninterested. And you'll take your power back.

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2021-06-07 14:25:00 The dynamics observed in school bullying
In a society ruled by aggressive characters, it is perhaps unsurprising that bullies often go unpunished, whilst victims are shamed. It is not uncommon for parents of victims of bullism to be told that they should be understanding, because the bully “had a really hard life”. As a result, there is no accountability for the bully, who often continues to traumatize the victim. In some extreme cases, the abused child has no other choice but to change school, while the bullies choose another victim to abuse.

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2021-06-05 17:09:19 Very insightful speech by Dr Gabor Maté on our relationahip with guilt.

I find that guilt and, more specifically, the inability to say "no" make us particularly vulnerable to narcisissits and other manipualtive types.

Dr Gabod Maté explains the difference between heatlhy and unhealthy guilt and how we can stop feeling guilty for simply saying "no".



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2021-06-04 13:40:40
Early signs that you may be dating an abusive personality.

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