The first rule to not be manipulated is to not hand anyone control of your mind.
people who have been mentally ill tend to fear life and desperately seek someone to trust. If someone, especially family, offer their help, advice, guidance and support, the person suffering pulls down all walls of protection and offer themselves completely.
They make excellent victims for narcissist family to carry on manipulating.
The first thing we must get into our minds to protect ourselves is to take away control of our lives and minds from everyone, it does not matter who they are. If people love us then they will support this, because they will agree that we need to depend on ourselves and practice using our own minds to become capable of living our owns lives.
A person’s life is about thinking, deciding, choosing, doing what they want to do acc to his or her own mind.
When we allow others too much say on our lives we may think that we have boundaries protecting us but the reality is that we have taken some of the boundaries down to allow other people control over our minds and lives. We can’t be free or free thinkers if other people are thinking for us.
All the best from James Martin Sandbrook.
Friday, 10 January 2020, 12:17:11 AM.