Mental abuse is an awful experience. A victim’s spiteful behavior is a natural response to the ill deeds of the abuser. Victims tend to take note of their awful experiences to amass grudges against their abuser, hoping that one day the tables will turn and revenge will be theirs. The time to serve vengeance and justify their awful experience will come, especially for narcissists who act as if they are supreme. If you are a victim, you will get tired of always catering to their wishes and being treated like a lowborn person. You want to make them bend on their knees and snatch that supremacy from them. Unable to achieve this revenge towards the narcissists will result in a spiteful nature. Victims unconsciously pour this rage into the people surrounding them.
Trait number three: Over-compliant
Compliance is adjusting one’s behavior in some way to conform to a request or direction of other people. Over-compliance means overdoing compliance, where one always chooses to comply despite having the option to refuse the request or regardless of one’s capacity to comply with the request. This means doing something one does not want to do but does it anyway simply because someone else has asked. Victims often become over-compliant after mental abuse to avoid further abuse. It could also be that they still want to maintain their relationships with their abuser or other people.
Trait number four: Anxious and depressed
Have you ever encountered someone who always feels anxious and depressed? Did you try to talk to that person and ask, “How are you?” or “Are you alright?” That person could be a victim of mental abuse from narcissists. Mental abuse is highly draining; it lingers longer than physical bruises, which heal with a pack of ice bags. Mental abuse is tough to forget. It only takes a word for mental abuse, but that one word cuts deeper than a knife, especially if your abuser is somebody you cannot distance yourself from or somebody whom you always see. The anticipation of further abuse cannot make a person happy and positive. Instead, it makes them behave depressingly and anxiously, wishing everything would end. It keeps them questioning, “What’s next?” or “What else?” If you ever feel this way, consult a professional for help.
Trait number five: Lack of self-control
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