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Physical abuse

Narcissists are very jealous and angry individuals, but they can hide their passive aggression well under their often-emotionless vizard.

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Many narcissistic relationships result in physical abuse which puts your physical well-being and your life in danger.

No relationship is worth the cost of risking your life.

Even though we can experience physical pain and impairment caused by the narcissist, it can still seem difficult to leave the relationship.

The strong connection we feel towards our narcissist feels like a drug addiction.

It is not feelings of love that we often mistake it for.

Rather it is trauma bond, also known as Stockholm syndrome.

If you wish to learn more on this topic to help you escape your toxic relationship, please read my previous post- Breaking the Trauma Bond

Experiencing physical abuse can also impact your emotional wellbeing.

It can affect your confidence, your optimism for life,

and even your other relationships due to trust issues and feelings of fear and shame.

And the damage to your body caused by physical abuse can affect greatly on your capabilities and quality of one’s life.  

Your body’s physical damage can also create present and future medical issues.

If anyone puts your physical safety in danger, always remember; it is abuse.

This can include pushing, throwing objects, hitting, biting, choking, pinning you down and the list goes on and on.

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If you experience any form of physical abuse from your narcissist,

please tell a trusted friend or family member, seek professional help and contact authorities.

If you don’t have friends or family you can rely on, make sure to reach out for help from your community.

There are safe houses, such as men or women’s shelter to escape to with staff that will care and understand your situation.

I pray for the safety of all victims of narcissistic abuse, and their loved ones.

Fatigue

We are living on high alert when we are surviving under stress and anxiety.

Our minds and bodies use a lot of energy to be in such an overactive state.

This fight and flight response we function under creates muscle tension, hyperawareness and accelerates our heart rate.

All this can cause our bodies to burn out and we can feel chronically fatigued.

Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of stress and anxiety.

And even when it comes time to rest or sleep, our mind and body often cannot completely relax,

because we are in a permanent state of fight or flight mode.

This affects the quality of our sleep, or rather; creates the lack of sleep.

Fatigue decreases our mental and physical capacity and productivity.

Simple daily tasks can feel difficult and so overwhelming when we lack the energy to function at normal capacity.                                                                                  

This in turn also increases our safety risk, as our focus is dramatically decreased.

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Whether it be in the workplace, driving a vehicle or completing simple tasks at home.

Sleep deprivation can cause us to feel like we are waking up with a hangover every day.

And this decreases our lack of motivation to do anything.

We often just want to crawl back into bed, feeling more stressed and depressed under our current stressful situations.

What starts with confusion from the small amounts of gaslighting, can turn into high stress levels,

chronic fatigue, loss of oneself and severe depression in the long term.

And we can be completely oblivious that this is all caused by our relationship with the narcissist.  

Fatigue can also increase health and medical issues as our bodies cannot rest enough,

to get the strength for our immune system to fight back against viruses and other illnesses.  

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