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tklshtxler · 10 months

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#trauma #manipulation #parents #mental health #abuse survivor #narcissistic abuse #emotional abuse

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angelyuji · 1 month

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smart, genius yanderes making their obsession feel stupid and dumb so they rely on them for everything???? bimbo reader is one of my fav tropes becuz... i am stupid :)

tw // yandere content, emotional abuse, just being mean, yandere stuff u guys know the deal

constantly belittling you, demeaning you, as a way of lowering your self-esteem. making you second-guess everything you do as a way of making you depend on them for the simplest of tasks. snapping at you and immediately turning around and comforting you.

"don't be stupid. you should know better than that." he snaps, snatching the pen from your hands.

"what? what did i-" you feel your face heat from embarassment.

"(y/n), this is a job application." he snatches that paper from your hands.

"i know what it is..." you try to reach for it, but he holds it away. "i just want to help you."

"help me? i don't need your help, (y/n)." he grabs at your hair, pulling you off your chair to the ground. you yelp in pain as his fingers tangle in your hair and yank at your scalp. "why would they hire you? what qualities do you have that they would want? you're an idiot, a fucking idiot. you can barely cook a decent meal without my help." his voice was laced with venom. you feel tears slip down your face.

"i'm sorry." you meekly whisper. "you're right, i'm too stupid." you choke out a sob. he smiles before shushing you, letting go of your hair. he sits down next to you and pulls you into a hug. you melt into his touch.

"it's okay, that's why i'm here. to take care of you."

definitely: spencer reid (post-prison), bruce wayne, tony stark, 707, elias bouchard, gojo satoru

maybe: dick grayson, sam winchester, charles xavier, jason todd

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0vergrowngraveyard · 1 month

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i will forever be on my “tails and infinte could’ve had such a good hero-villain dynamic in forces if the player character didn’t take over tails’ role” bullshit

#graveyardtxt #also that infinite could’ve focused his attacks on more mental/emotional damage instead of physical damage #because like illusions? hello?#think about it #tails’ logic vs infinite’s manipulation?#come on that would’ve been so cool #mind games on the battlefield? please? i beg of you?#i was talking to passionartx about this earlier but i had to put it in a post #i just wish tails and infinite were done better in forces i think about them often #miles tails prower #infinite the jackal #sonic forces #just my opinion

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loveyourlovelysoul · 11 months

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You are worthy. You are deserving. You are important. Do not let someone else's behaviour or judgment weight so much on you, they don't know you and they simply cannot see your real worth cause you are shining much more than them and therefore they are trying to overshadow you. So keep shining bright, my star. Keep shining no matter what.

#words #healing #important #positivity #self love #thoughts #positive thinking #self healing #healingjourney #love yourself #life #life lessons #relationships #narcissistic abuse #tw manipulation #mental health #recovery #reminders #emotional abuse

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exilethegame · 7 months

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If MC goes on a killing spree (or chooses to burn everything down), consciously this time, which characters will step aside and let them and who will try to stop them?

I mean I'm sure they can understand MC wanting to do so, but understanding is different than allowing

For Plaithus?

Stop MC Always: Nikke, Sabir Support MC "Always": Freedom, Jost Support MC if MC manipulates them: Syfyn, Amilia, Vethna

#manipulates means a lot of things #in some of their cases it's more of an “influence”#and for others it's full blown emotional + mental abuse #answered

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family-trauma · 1 month

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There's nothing really subtle about it, atleast what I'm facing.

#absurd #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mental wellbeing #toxic #toxic family #toxicity #toxic people #dysfunctional family #emotional trauma #emotional abuse #emotional harassment #emotional blackmail #emotional manipulation #family-trauma

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wildstar25 · 2 months

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MiqoMarch Day 26 - Faith

Though she is constantly reminded of her status being blessed by the goddess- Hydaelyn's chosen, as they called it - Arsay maintained a reluctance to allow her fate to be subject to the will of any higher being. Instead it is her friends, her family, whom Arsay puts her absolute faith in. Their bond is the greater gift by far.

#miqomarch #miqomarch 2024 #ffxiv #scions of the seventh dawn #ffxiv scions #ffxiv gpose #WOL posting #Arsay Nun #Hydaelyn's chosen was one of the only titles Arsay never really vibed with #which is for the best since her faith in hydaelyn was honestly on the rocks for a while and even worse after that one reveal in shb #arsay is a summoner and a primal slayer so like #she sees things like gods through that lens mostly #that gods aren't like a set being that exists on some separate plane of reality #they are a myth brought to form through aetheric manipulation #primal summons have always been influenced by the emotional and mental state of the summoner #it is their will that ultimately determines how their god acts when brought forth into the world as a aetheric construct #in the end its the believer in control not the god they believe in #so arsay chooses to believe in her friends and her friends believe in her!#thats how she finds strength in even the most desperate of situations #and yeah arsay admittedly had a bit of egg on her face when the twelve show up and are like well we are actual guys #in her defence literally how was she supposed to know

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selfhealingmoments · 3 months

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j7cvera · 5 months

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Gaslighting at its best. Be careful of these predators.

#toxic #narcissistic abuse #parentalalienation #mental health #child abuse #narcissisticgaslighting #gaslighting #narcissist parents #trash #truth #fucking cowards #slander #emotional abuse #manipulation #female manipulator #covert narcissism #toxic femininity

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dimonds456 · 5 months

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It is not okay to speculate whether or not someone is suicidal. If they claim to be, you should 100% take that shit seriously and give them the benefit of the doubt.

That said, if someone is using their own suicidality as a weapon to gain sympathy, emotionally manipulate someone, or to push other people down, GENUINELY fuck that person. While it's not okay for us to doubt that statement just because they're weaponizing it, that also doesn't mean we need to ALLOW that manipulation to convince us of something.

If you feel the need to use your terrible mental health as a step-stool in a conversation to make your side more heard than the other, you need to take a step back and re-evaluate yourself. And I am saying this as someone who ALSO has shit mental health and has been in the trenches with it before. I get it. I understand. But also STOP.

It's tempting to want to save your own ass over recognizing where you've gone wrong, but just a word of advise: recognizing where you've gone wrong WILL save your ass and give you better mental health and wisdom down the line.

However, emotionally manipulating people absolutely will not.

#suicide mention #tw sui ment #tw suicide #suicide tw #tw sui #tw sui talk #james somerton #k with all that out of the way i do wanna say that this is a response to james' apology #im honestly glad he deleted the vid and also that he's going to genuinely get into a better place #that is GOOD #i mean this genuinely i hope he gets better #but also the fact that he opened the video with an emotional guilt-trip is something i have just been wanting to talk about for a long time #it's manipulation 101 #if you wanna tell your audience you're struggling with mental health that's one thing but not in a fucking apology video #and if you do need to mention it DONT MAKE IT THE VERY FIRST THING YOU SAY #that's such a shitty thing to do #what you need to do is apologize to everyone FIRST and say everything you need to say #and THEN bring that up #but even then i'd disclaim the shit out of it and make sure everyone knows it's not a guilt trip it's just true #but like. at the end of the day dragging your own mental health into an apology is a double-edged sword #tjhat really just depends on the situation #like i said i genuinely hope he gets better #but it's not just him doing this shit. i've seen like 3 cases of this shit in just the past few months #i guess james is just my excuse to finally say something about it

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kaladinkholins · 4 months

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guys cmon. be ffr please. akemi did Not love taigen. the only reason why she was desperate to search for him to the point of putting herself in danger is because she didn't want to get married to an abusive man (which she believed at the time that takayoshi was). when seki tried to dissuade her from running off, her reason was not "but i love taigen and wanna be with him 🥺" it was because she refused to be controlled and have her autonomy taken from her; she literally says "i won't be locked away in edo married to a stranger." and when seki still tries to argue that getting married to the heir of the shogun would be better than getting caught by brigands, she then says "that kind of man"—referring to takayoshi—"treats women like animals. they say he's a tyrant." and when seki chuckles and says "what man isn't?" her response is "you." she doesn't even talk about taigen. she is using him as much as he was using her. they both see—or, well, saw—each other as means to an end. for taigen he saw that marrying into the tokunobu clan would elevate his status and wealth. for akemi she wanted the right to choose who she married, and she wanted that person to be someone kind. that's it! neither of them loved each other. but since they were courting of course they acted sweet to each other, and they do still care for one another, especially due to their romantic history. but let's be real! akemi is a boss bitch who dropped taigen and forgot all about his ass as soon as she saw takayoshi was a nice guy. because duh? not only is takayoshi a better lover (it's implied their lovemaking lasted a long time) but he's also kinder towards her and presents her with an opportunity to claim power and freedom, which she would not have if she had married taigen, as she would have still been stuck under her father's thumb. so literally why should she settle for taigen's stupid ass! she may be a little naive at times but she's still incredibly intelligent. she would not do something stupid for the sake of "love." you know who would though? taigen.

#blue eye samurai #wank.mp3 #kinda?#fandom.rtf #shut up haydar #like out of the 4 main characters #akemi is the brains (the mental aspect)#she mainly uses reason and rhetoric. that's why she's so good at persuasion and manipulation.#ringo is the soul (spiritual aspect)#ringo serves as the show's moral compass and gets mizu to follow her morality #taigen is the heart (emotional aspect)#taigen will always impulsively follow his feelings (he's so brash for this reason. if he feels angry he will act on it etc)#mizu is the body (physical aspect)#mizu suppresses her emotions. her reason. and her morals. she only lets her skills and primal instincts guide her.#that's why she's almost super human sometimes #but anyway yeah #akemi? is a strong-willed self-empowered woman! she is not some damsel. she is intelligent though somewhat naive #please do not mischaracterise her cuz she is a boss bitch! she is a queen a cuntress a baddie #also on that note. the nature of taigen and akemi's rship is one of the reasons why im not keen on a polycule ending #like please explore it in fanfic and fandom! i personally just dont want it canon. i just dont see it working!#like literally i dont even think taigen found her attractive...#i mean he did obv find her very beautiful as everyone does. but did yall SEE his face when she propositioned him?#no desire in that man's eyes. he is GAY! his sexuality is men + mizu. he is a raging and bitchy bisexual!

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neuroticboyfriend · 6 months

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okay. i finally found something on parents love bombing that is not ableist against cluster B's or encouraging parents to love bomb. it's in the form of a comment on this reddit post from 6 years ago. here's the comment, from u/Glaucus92:

Lovebombing is part of the cycle of abuse. The cycle you'll usually find is this one:

Calm -> Tension building -> Incident -> Reconcilliation -> Calm

Lovebombing is part of the "Reconcilliation" part. After an incident, a victim will usually try to confront, give consequences to, or withdraw form the abuser. In order to keep the victim close, to keep power over them, an abuser may lovebomb their victim. It is not linked to a specifc role in an abisive dynamic. It is a technique used by abuser as a reaction to 'losing' a victim.

The abuser will (attempt to) be the person you always wanted them to be. That can be the parent that listens to you when you talk about your interest. It can be that they tell you how proud they are of you, how they've always been proud, etc. It can be that they buy you gifts or give you money. This behaviour isn't exclusive to abusive parents either; think of how an abusive spouse might organize a wonderful date or get an expensive gift for their victims.

The goal of the lovebombing is to give you a little taste of what you usually never get from them, be it attention, financial aid, praise, compliments, whatever. By giving you that tiny bit, they are basically pretending that they can be this nice, loving parent. The underlying unspoken message of course being that things could be like this, if only you tried harder, or weren't like x, or were more like y. Because without the realization that they are abusive, it doesn't make sense for them to purposefully hurt you and then be really nice to you.

Lovebombing insipres false hope that if only you could be better, the abuser wouldn't be abusive. It also helps wiht the gaslighting; when they do all these nice things for you in that moment, you might think that you over-exagerated the previous abuse. It's usually only when you look back and realise that all these 'nice' things only happened when you were upset with them or withdrew from them.

Since you asked for examples:

A parent who is usually very disinterested in your life suddenly makes a lot of effort to discuss you hobbies with you.

A parent might start to give you a lot of compliments all of a sudden, or tell stories about how they've told others about how amazing you are.

Parents might give you gifts for no reason. Stating that they just wanted to be nice, or just thought of you when they saw it.

They might start calling or visiting a lot, especially when they previously didn't. Saying things about how much they miss you.

Trying to harken back to 'the good old days'. Sending you pictures of happy childhood memories or recounting old stories.

It might be straight up bribery. A conflict happens, and after the intial blow up you are given cash/money to buy something nice or becasue they ust want to help.

A parent might try to smooth things over by taking you to a place or on a trip you wanted to go to.

I know some of these might sound like perfectly normal things, and they would be coming from non-abusive people. It becomes an abusive tactic when it happens more often than not (or in greater intesity) after a conflict has occured. It also almost always happens in lieu of an actual apology. By lovebombing instead of apologizing, the abuser doesn't have to take responisbility for their action. The unspoken agreement that governs this is that by accepting the gift/loveboming, the victim doesn't hold the abuser accountable.

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lotus-pear · 4 months

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okay guys I see what ur saying with the Dazai critiques, man’s insane. I personally enjoy that insanity but yk, fair game to hate

but I have to say that I at least don’t defend yk. bc it would be exponentially funnier if I did, but my heart wouldn’t be in it </3

this leads me to remembering one of my favorite comments ever on dazai opinion that I found on Twitter X once

actually hilarious to me to see ppl simplify the murder as mental health… it’s just… how

crazy stuff, fr

cuz dazai has hundreds of counts of murder and torture and manipulation… but he’s just sad uwu

im cackling at this rn hkyxkagrgea

bsdtt try to actually characterize anybody in bsd fucking correctly challenge (impossible) GO‼️‼️ imagine calling dazai a cruel and heartless individual when he literally wrests control of his entire fucking life at the mere age of eighteen DESPITE being suicidal and devoid of emotions and any will to live after the death of his dearest friend/parental figure. do they understand how mentally STRONG someone has to be in order to do that? do you guys fucking understand how EASY it would have been for dazai to let that be his breaking point and finally kill himself? every time i look back at oda's death scene i am stunned and miserable at how reluctantly dazai gets up. like he wants to die right there too. but he picks himself up and escapes the mafia. he carves a life out for himself despite being a fucking hollow shell of a human. a husk of the boy he could've been had oda not died. alienated from society with no skills outside of the mafia despite his analytical mind with the word "traitor" on his head and no one by his side. can you imagine doing all of that while being barely at the brink of adulthood? that was a CHILD.

#literally miserable every time i think of pm dazai #he's horrible and manipulative but he was literally suicidal and so so mentally ill he couldn't realize what he was doing #not to mention the dehumanizing environment he was in. being trained as mori's successor w no regard of his own emotions.#not even seen as a person outside of his high analytical capabilities #i may hate that mf but i won't be caught dead mischaracterizing him unlike 90% of his stans. that alr makes me better than them #lotus's asks

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etherealsign282 · 1 year

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it's weird, when you're finally learning to set up boundaries everyone who seems to care says they're proud of you. Until the boundaries apply to them too.

now they're mad.

#boundaries #self help #emotional health #healing #gaslighting #Sorry you got too comfortable with my people pleasing and doormat behavior #toxicity #toxic ex #toxic parents #toxic people #mental abuse #mental health #manipulation

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akindplace · 2 years

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Setting boundaries doesn't mean you're selfish and unconcerned about people's needs. It doesn't make your heart too hard, it doesn't make you a colder person. It means that you care enough for relationships to go smoothly by setting your limits and making it clear so that other people understand it. No one has a right to possess you and to do whatever they want with you. It is okay to say "no".

Notice the red flags when people cannot accept "no" for an answer and disrespect your boundaries while trying to manipulate you into thinking your boundaries are too harsh and hurt them too much. The hypocrisy is that they do not care if they are hurting you by infringing those limitations. No amount of emotional manipulation should make you give up on your boundaries and put up with whatever people want you to.

Recognize the red flags and walk away, because those flags will keep getting bigger and bigger, their behavior will keep getting worse as they push into doing things for them that you are not comfortable with. Boundaries are meant to be respected, and if they aren't, don't give up on your own comfort and safety just to make someone else happy.

#boundaries #emotional health #mental health #cw manipulation #red flags #respecting boundaries #validation #relationships #original writing

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family-trauma · 8 months

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I spoke to a friend of mine recently and got asked some really blunt, painful but necessary questions to really make me think about my situation.

They asked, "why do you continue staying when the family you financially and physically support while sacrificing your own life, emotionally abuses you constantly for years?" And I couldn't really figure out an answer to that. I know there's fear, and guilt really instilled into abuse victims through gaslighting, manipulation, lies, emotional blackmailing and harassment but why do we truly still stick around and take all that? Is it the comfort, is it the norm we are used to, what is it?

I'm still trying to figure this one out. If anyone has some insight or thoughts please do share.

#absurd #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mental wellbeing #dysfunctional family #toxic family #toxic #toxicity #toxic people #emotional abuse #emotional trauma #abuse recovery #selfhelp #self help #self reflection #self improvement #self therapy #manipulation #family-trauma

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