Narcissists do not just break your heart; they rewire your nervous system fully. They twist your instincts, hijack your reality, and make you doubt the most basic parts of yourself: your voice, your memories, and your needs. By the time you escape, you’re no longer just walking out of a relationship; you are crawling out of a hell that failed to annihilate you.
Silence, freedom, and the absence of their chaos it doesn’t feel like peace at first. It feels nervous, like stepping into a new skin you do not recognize. You start doing things, like strange things, things even you do not fully understand. The world may not see them, but they’re there: in your rituals, in your routines, in the things you reach for, in the compulsions you can’t quite explain.
Today, I want to walk you through 10 of those weird, almost unexplainable things survivors do after leaving the narcissist. These are trauma responses dressed up as habits, and if you find yourself doing them, you’re healing in the only language your body knows. No one talks about them, so Read until the very end.
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