What Is Learned Helplessness?
Learned helplessness is a state that occurs after a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly. They come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try – even when opportunities for change become available.
Stonewalling consists of:
Refusal to negotiate a conflict in good faith.
Refusal to discuss honestly one's motivations.
Refusal to listen to another point of view with openness.
Refusal to compromise.
Refusal to collaborate.
Refusal to support the other person's plans.
Refusal to accept influence.
Signs of an abusive relationship.
1. Says things to upset or frighten you.
2. Becomes overly and inappropriately jealous of attention from or conversation with others.
3. Monitors your time and whereabouts.
4. Monitors your telephone calls/texts or email contacts.
5. Makes decisions that affect both of you or the family without consulting you or reaching an agreement with you.
6. Controls the finances and how you spend money.
7. Repeatedly crosses your boundaries and ignores your requests.
8. Makes subtle threats or negative remarks with the intent to frighten or control you.
9. Shows complete disregard and disrespect.
10. Disregards your opinions, ideas, suggestions, or needs.
11. Makes "jokes" at your expense.
12. Uses sarcasm or "teasing" to put you down or make you feel bad. 13. Swears at you or calls you names.
Gaslighting is when they call a person crazy for telling the truth.
Just like a black hole, if you take away the energy that is being provided to feed the narcissist, then there is no longer anything for them to feed on and the toxic dynamic begins melting away so you can finally break free.
One of the indisputable signs that you're dealing with a narcissist is constantly being on
Discard Alert
You feel like you're always one wrong move away from being rejected and abandoned.