Using loved ones as a verbal punching bag

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Are you really angry at the person standing in front of you? Or is that past unresolved trauma coming up in the moment adding tension and making your loved ones not want to be around you (or you around them)? With holidays and other gatherings, it's a good time to talk about what to do with those repressed triggers that are lying in the deep recesses of your mind.

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0:14.0	Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express
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1:11.1	that could affect your physical or mental health.
1:14.0	All right, I think I have a good topic to talk about today and that is using your loved ones,
1:21.0	those closest to you, as your verbal punching bag. It's a terrible way to put it and I
1:27.5	use that because it can seem like you're beating them up or when someone does it to you it can seem like
1:35.5	you're being beat up and I'm not talking about the physical part I'm talking
1:39.3	about when people are expressing to you in a way that feels not loving.
1:47.2	It feels hurtful even.
1:49.8	Somebody comes home from work and they had a hard day at work
1:52.4	and you say hi honey or how you
1:56.3	doing son or how are you doing daughter and they say shut up you. I don't want to,
2:04.0	I just want to go to my bedroom and I just want to be quiet.
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