5 CPTSD Behaviors After Narcissistic Abuse
These individuals are not healthy, and they don’t teach you healthy relationship skills when you are in there for a long time. Being well with somebody who doesn’t appreciate healthy behavior is very hard.
If someone is upset with you, handling it from a calm and grounded place is healthy. But that doesn’t work for the narcissist. They don’t want you to be relaxed and grounded. If you are, they see themselves and don’t want to be the one with the problem. So they provoke you to react so they can feel they are the ones that are okay.
If you leave that relationship, you have an unhealed CPTSD. So, it’s going to be challenging to develop healthy relationships afterward.
You have been a long time with toxic people, and you were probably isolated as well. In this way, you were unable to form healthy relationships with others. Instead, you were forced to be around the narcissist’s flying monkeys.
When you are out of those dynamics and have detoxed yourself from toxic people, the challenge is having healthy relationships.
