7 Serious Mental Illnesses Empaths Get from Narcissistic Abuse


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 Number 4: Bipolar disorder.

 According to the SMI advisor, a clinical support system for serious mental illnesses, “bipolar disorder is a severe mental illness that causes a person’s mood energy and ability to think correctly to fluctuate dramatically”. Mania and depression are excessively high in low moods experienced by people who suffer from this condition. These moods are very different from most people’s normal moods, and they’re difficult to manage, impairing daily functioning.

Empaths living under the same roof with narcissists will most likely adapt to their abuser’s unstable temperaments, changing swiftly even without valid reasons to justify their mood changes. These abusers can be the empath’s spouses, parents, other relatives, etc. Since empaths are labeled as emotional sponges due to their capacity to absorb other people’s emotions and different levels of energy in their environment, they are prone to be influenced by the negative feelings and aura that narcissists constantly give off.

 Empaths will experience emotional changes from being lively to sorrowful, irritated, or mad at someone or the world. Due to unreasonable anger and mood swings shown to them by narcissists, empaths may develop a severe mental illness hauled bipolar disorder, consciously or unconsciously.

 Number 5: Severe sleeping disorders.

 As a result of anxiety stress and depression, empaths are more at risk of experiencing severe sleeping disorders. Empaths may become addicted to long periods of sleep or cannot sleep to such severe sleeping disorders. Empaths with a major depressive disorder prefer to sleep all day and night. They have lost interest in their hobbies, passions, ambitions, and aspirations, leaving them despondent and exhausted in their lives.

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 Some empaths may experience the opposite condition, known as sleeplessness or insomnia; defined by Mayo clinic’s website as: “A frequent sleep problem that makes it difficult to fall asleep, stay asleep, or cause you to wake up too early and be unable to sleep again”. When you wake up, you can still be exhausted. Insomnia can deplete your energy and attitude, health, work performance, and overall quality of life.

 Some empaths are experiencing insomnia, which dramatically affects their mental and physical well-being. Empaths cannot get a good night’s sleep due to their anxieties and stress, which caused them to overthink things in people, particularly the narcissists in their lives. The latter does not even bother to think about them, as narcissists are only concerned about themselves.

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