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Am I the narcissist or the codependent?
The codependent person has found a partner they can pour their self into, and the narcissistic person has found someone who puts their needs first. Meanwhile, the narcissistic person often exploits their partner’s people-pleasing tendencies for their own narcissistic supply.
How can you identify a psychopath’s eyes?
While your gaze might linger on someone you find attractive or appealing, you might quickly look away from something that frightens or disturbs you. Your pupils also dilate when you experience strong emotions, including fear, anger, and love (or lust).
Why do I walk around like an empty shell?
I Walk Around like an Empty Shell. Why Do I Feel Nothing? When facing danger, there are three responses: fight, flight and freeze. With situations such as childhood abuse, trauma or grief, it’s natural for our psyche to go into ‘numbing mode’ as a freezing response.
What does it feel like to feel an empty feeling?
Some people report emptiness as a physical sensation in their bodies that keeps them from being able to live life the way they want to. You may have a hollow feeling in your chest or feel lethargic. You might feel bored most of the time and think nothing matters. It’s like an emotional numbness that you can’t shake.
Why do narcissists throw everything they love away?
Inevitably, the discarding occurs when the person with narcissism either disappears or orchestrates his or her own abandonment by engaging in some form of egregious emotional abuse. The outcome is often shocking for the survivor, unclear as to how someone that he or she fell so deeply in love with could throw it all away.
What does it feel like to have no feelings in life?
It can be experienced differently in everyone, from a lingering sense of boredom or emptiness, to being unable to display or feel emotion, or feeling like you’re watching life go by without being ‘in it’. You may feel as though the painful things in life are muted, but you also miss out on positive emotions.