1. Triggered Emotions

If you ever hear loud noises, especially shouting, You immediately feel like you are thrown back into the abuse, you’re memories come back in a flash of moment reminding you of all the pain you have been through. Even laughter among the group of people sounds scary and fearful to you.

2. Friendships Don’t Last:

It feels as if dealing with conflict is extremely hard. Also, not having the right or necessary socialization skills to deal with interpersonal relationships. And therefore friendships with anyone don’t last long.

3. Emotions Are Always Heightened:

Someone accusing you of something will threaten you easily and you start speaking loudly or yelling and at last, you burst into tears failing to express or prove yourself. You have no control over your emotions and lack self-control and even patience.

4. Paranoid About Getting Manipulated:

You easily fall into the game of manipulation. They manipulate you, use you for the situations but there is nothing you could do. You always feel helpless and find no way to deal with manipulative people.

It’s always late for you to realize that someone has already used you as a “scapegoat”. You have no option than feeling anger, betrayed, cheated on, and continue living with fear as usual.

5. Edge Around People:

You are always on edge around people. You always feel as if these people are going to hurt you in some way, usually by mocking, making fun of you, and laughing at you.

You’re always asking if people are mad at you. And because of this, you are in constant fear of the people around you.

6. Insecurity In Everything:

Insecurity. In everything. Placing yourself as your priority, makes you feel as if you are selfish. You feel jealous easily without even knowing it. You feel guilty, ashamed easily when someone says how selfish you are for placing yourself as a priority.

7. Act Strong And Confident Outwardly To People:

You act strong and confident outwardly to people so that people wouldn’t emotionally abuse you. You don’t want to let them witness your mental illness, for fear of being left or bullied again for it.