How Hard is it For a Person of Narcissists Abuse to Ask For Help?
Harder than you think while everyone around you thinks your fucking crazy.
It’s very tough, because by the time they realize what is going on they are pretty fucked up. They have put up with months, maybe years of abuse. They aren’t sure what they’re dealing with, or better yet, the whole damn problem might be them, and not the abuser.
They’re in the bargaining stage of grief. Not knowing what is right or wrong. Maybe the Narcissists is right, maybe they are abusive? Maybe they need to just cut the asshole some slack. Maybe if they would just be more trusting everything would start to smooth over, right?
In walks reactive abuse.
Reactive abuse will do some hefty damage to a the person being abused. They will begin to blame themselves and question everything. They will break down every argument looking for something that makes sense. The will go back and forth between the good and bad(cognitive dissonance) of this person because they can’t make sense of anything any longer.
Most never ask for help.
It’s fucking embarrassing what we put up with. We can see it, but “can’t” see it at the same time. The cognitive dissonance runs deep! Cognitive…
