Emotional Account

[Jesus_Is_His_Name]

 

[th1b.taylor]

Wise words but the humans have no training in such making it tough to break a relationship.

 

[Jesus_Is_His_Name]

I have no problem whatsoever cutting people off especially if the relationship is toxic period and that also includes Christians! I certainly have had my share with believers and non-believers. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt...

 

[Wrg1405]

I have no problem whatsoever cutting people off especially if the relationship is toxic period and that also includes Christians! I certainly have had my share with believers and non-believers. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt...

Send a t-shirt my way will you so I can put it on.

To be honest I do find it difficult to break off when emotionally drained by them. I always hope for a breakthrough.

 

[Jesus_Is_His_Name]

I am speaking from experience. Once you have a gage of what Narcissism truly is which is linked to emotional ties etc... God will give His strength to break free. As He did with me. If people are emotionally draining, you answered your own question. Only God can free a person if they wish to be free and not bound by circumstances including toxic relationship of any sort. Cry out to God and HE will do it!

 

[Christ_empowered]

Learned some of that through experience....not quite "there" yet, though.

Sad that you've had that with many fellow Christians. I don't...get it. That's one thing that bothers me...I know Christians aren't perfect, but...it does seem like there are a good # of Christians who aren't any different from people in and of the world. Not to be super judgmental or whatever...I'm a work-in-progress, too, just...an observation.

Good post.

 

[Wrg1405]

I am speaking from experience. Once you have a gage of what Narcissism truly is which is linked to emotional ties etc... God will give His strength to break free. As He did with me. If people are emotionally draining, you answered your own question. Only God can free a person if they wish to be free and not bound by circumstances including toxic relationship of any sort. Cry out to God and HE will do it!

Never truly knew what narcissism is so just looked it up. So on that point I can understand what you are saying.
But what if someone is not narcissistic? But genuinely struggling, what then?

 

[Christ_empowered]

I was daignosed as "severely, hopelessly, incurably Narcissistic (NPD)" in my late teens and into my early 20s. Weird thing...once the label of NPD was applied and my info shared w/ people all over this small, southern town...and then with people when I tried to go back to college, age 23...

...I was --beyond-- stigmatized. Going back to school...I remember some bleached blonde, 19 year old young woman from a rich family (forever talking about how she went to some boarding school, etc....this was a public university) pointing at me from across the street and saying "Narcissist!"

I was basically driven out of college for being NPD, being a burn out (although...thanks to the magic of rapid weight loss and some freaky physical problems, I looked about 17 for a while there...), etc...

...basically, people all over used the NPD label as an excuse to punish me (what the professionals who "treated" me called "humbling experiences..."), and I had a nervous breakdown ("psychotic mania," in shrink speak). I almost jumped off a bridge...and I was electroshocked back to the Stone Age.

I'm now --not-- diagnosed with full on NPD (Praise God!), but I do apparently have...something...Bipolar I w/psychosis, Schizophrenia...one of those. Whatevs. Antipsychotic+mood drugs, basically.

Point is (yes, I have one...) watch it with the psycholabels. If you make me mad, I could call you borderline or narcissist or "she needs help," blah blah blah. Diagnoses=labels, and labels can often=condemnation.

Plus...even the worst narcissist is a human being. The Golden Rule applies.

 

[Jesus_Is_His_Name]

Never truly knew what narcissism is so just looked it up. So on that point I can understand what you are saying.
But what if someone is not narcissistic? But genuinely struggling, what then?

You don't necessarily have to be a Narcissist to struggle. We all struggle in some fashion. However, we must call upon the Lord and implicitly trust Him with everything! God knows our heart.

.2 Corinthians 12:9-10 “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

 

[Jesus_Is_His_Name]

Learned some of that through experience....not quite "there" yet, though.

Sad that you've had that with many fellow Christians. I don't...get it. That's one thing that bothers me...I know Christians aren't perfect, but...it does seem like there are a good # of Christians who aren't any different from people in and of the world. Not to be super judgmental or whatever...I'm a work-in-progress, too, just...an observation.

Good post.

Thank you empowered.