Have You Been Used as an Emotional Sponge?

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Empaths are highly sensitive to others' emotions, which leaves them vulnerable to absorbing everyone else's concerns or traumas, even in their own families.

Projective identification is an unconscious mental strategy in which a person discharges feelings and qualities that they reject in themselves onto others. When one or more of your family members are wrestling with an emotion that frightens or repel them— such as helplessness,, self-hate, they would do all they can to disown that part of themselves, and lodge it outside of themselves. They then make you experience what they deep down feel but reject.

Projective identification is far more disturbing and insidious with than a simple projection. When the projection is forceful enough, it eats into your. Chronic fixed projections that exist in the family are particularly problematic and erode your sense of self . Through direct or subtle manipulation, they provoke in you an emotional response that brings out genuine identity confusion for you. It is a severe boundary violation through which your mind and body are infiltrated.

-to-right brain communication level. Projective identification is a remnant of our preverbal selves, bypassing our rational adult selves. Your family members are not conscious of what they are doing. They are acting out of a desperate, underdeveloped part of themselves. At the same time, You might have been the recipient of projective identification all your life without knowing.Self-awareness is the first step to waking up.

But our tasks here are not blaming or victimizing. This is an opportunity to come closer to yourself and your truth, and to make room for insights that will help you heal and grow.You can set boundaries, say no; but more importantly, you can psychologically refuse to take in toxic projections, and reclaim your true self.

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