מהן הסימנים לכך שאני זקוק/ה לעזרה?

If you experience at least four of the below statements, you are a victim of emotional abuse:

• Drained, empty, depressed, and used in every way possible.
• Your abuser doesn’t see you and doesn’t hear you.
• Your needs are not taken into consideration, you feel stepped on as if you were a rag on the floor.
• You experience frequent emotional blackmail (emotional manipulation) and suffer from feelings of guilt and anguish.
• You’re scared to end the relationship and of your partner’s reaction (you feel as if you’re walking on eggshells) but you don’t see a way out of “jail”.
• You feel hopeless and helpless.
• You suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts.
• You feel that you need psychiatric treatment.

There are victims of emotional abuse who turn to various addictions as a way of dealing with the many difficulties they experience. Emotional abuse victims feel as if their world is unstable due to the behaviors of their narcissistic partner, and in some cases, also their sanity. The narcissist turns everything upside down and presents his or her own false version to the world and makes the victim feel as if he or she is at fault. Emotional abuse victims begin to cast doubt on themselves, as they already lack trust in themselves and in their own judgment. The ironic thing is that the abusive narcissist presents him/herself as the victim and presents the real victim as “unstable” as the victim takes medicine in order to deal with the unbearable life created by the narcissist. But if it wasn’t for the presence of the narcissist in the life of the victim, the victim would not need psychiatric medicine at all. It’s like the familiar story of what came first, the chicken or the egg?