It is challenging and exhausting being romantically involved with a narcissist, but they can also cause havoc when they leave. Breakups are always hard, but when you’ve been in a relationship with someone who uses others and is obsessed with themselves, it can be even harder. On the surface, narcissists can seem charming, engaging and charismatic, which can make them difficult to leave in the first place. Dr Judith Orloff, a clinical psychiatrist at the University of California Los Angeles, wrote in a blog post on Psychology Today that narcissists can make you “fallRead More

if you’re an empath, you probably already know that you see and feel things in a unique way. Empaths have the innate ability to truly understand other people, whether they know them well or not. With their unprecedented abilities to be selfless in a self-serving world, empaths might often feel used by others or out of place. But empaths, I’m here to let you know there are more people like you out there than you think. Upon discovering the term “empath,” it really helped explain a few things about why IRead More

3. We can be brought to tears over seemingly insignificant things. I’ve cried while looking at an exhibit in a museum, reading books, listening to someone tell a story, and especially while watching or reading the news. Tears come easy to me but when they do, I often need to assess where they’re coming from: the empath in me or the HSP. Both aspects of my personality can lead to an emotional response, but it’s important to identify in myself where the emotion is coming from in order to moveRead More

Empaths are extremely powerful people, and I wouldn’t recommend that you mess with one. Empaths are excellent at reading body language and they are the best mind detectives! Empaths are born with a gift; they have the ability to feel others feelings. Although this is handy when you need someone to talk to, this isn’t their primary gift. Empaths are experts on human psychology by second nature. This gives them to ability to be able to tell when someone is faking, lying, or simply not who they said they were.Read More

Study found a link between dark traits and tendency to put own interests first Researchers say these people often seem to take pleasure in hurting others  While the dark traits are all different, they seem to share a single core factor   From sadism to psychopathy and even spitefulness, the traits that show the more sinister sides of humanity all share a common ‘dark core.’ And, if you have one of these tendencies, you just might have some of the others, too. While traits such as egoism might not seem asRead More

Perhaps you are in a relationship with somebody that believes they are far superior to you and to everybody around them. Perhaps you are married to somebody that’s “difficult” – they are often critical of you as things are always “your fault,” have an inflated ego, and demand all your attention. Or perhaps your parent runs your life and expects nothing less than excellence from you. If you have a selfish, difficult, and emotionally unavailable loved one and feel like you have less independence and self-confidence, you may be dealingRead More

  If you’ve ever had the misfortune of being wrapped up with a narcissist, then you already know what one of these horrible human beings are capable of. Since there is no concern for anyone else but themselves, they can prove to be some of the most toxic people that you could ever associate yourself with, especially when it comes to being in love with one of them. Narcissists see others as pawns, essentially. You are able to carry out there demands, not really thinking twice about them and alwaysRead More

8. You started drinking, using drugs, overeating, or not eating at all to cope with the abuse. A sociopath will leave you feeling as if you were never of their concern to begin with sometimes. They will avoid meeting your wants and needs in order to get what they want in the end game. A sociopath does not care about the way you feel, what you have to say, or show any concern for your physical well being. Their conflicts have now become your conflicts and there is no wayRead More

26. You stop caring for yourself. You shower less, eat less, sleep more, and only take care of things that are absolutely necessary. 27. You lack joy and can’t get excited about anything. Since the narcissist has made you feel useless, it’s hard to enjoy anything in life now. 28. You feel numb, emotionless as if your soul has been ripped out (because it has). 29. You can’t concentrate and get distracted easily. 30. You feel crazy. You just know there is something wrong with you. 31. The smallest infractionsRead More

  Karen Monahan, the former girlfriend of Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison who has accused him of domestic abuse, on Saturday posted on Facebook several screenshots of messages she allegedly received from the congressman in 2017. “After I realized this situation was narcissist abuse, I told him I now understood the dynamics of the relationship and the various forms of abuse,” Monahan wrote via Facebook. “He would call that bickering when he was called out. But he still left messages like this throughout the whole year of 2017.” Screenshots of messages Monahan postedRead More