Number 1: Over-compliant.
Compliance is adjusting one’s behavior in some way to conform to a request or direction of other people. Over-compliance simply means overdoing compliance, wherein one always chooses to comply despite having the option to refuse the request, or regardless of one’s capacity to comply with a request.
This means doing something one does not want to do but does it anyway simply because someone else has asked. Victims often become over-compliant after mental abuse to avoid further abuse. It could also be that they still want to maintain their relationships with their abuser or other people.
Number 2: Anxious and depressed.
Have you encountered someone who always feels anxious and depressed? Did you try to talk to that person and ask, “How are you”? Or “Are you all right”? That person could be a victim of mental abuse from narcissists.
Mental abuse is highly draining; it lingers longer like bruises that heal with a pack of ice bags. Mental abuse is tough to forget, it only takes a word for mental abuse, but that one word cuts deeper than a knife. Especially if your abuser is somebody you cannot distance yourself from or somebody whom you always see.
Of course, the anticipation of further abuse cannot make a person happy and positive, it never did. Rather it makes you behave depressingly and anxiously, wherein you just want everything to end, it keeps you questioning what’s next or what else. If you ever feel this way, consult a professional for help.
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