Tools of the toxic family

Sherrie Campbell PhD

A favorite manipulative tool
toxic family members use is to create holy-hell for us one day, and move on the next as if nothing happened.

They will stonewall, yell, and disregard our existence one moment, and in the next moment criticize us for having a “bad attitude.” When our family members create this type of chaos, nothing ever gets resolved. We quickly learn that when they move on as if nothing happened it is better to move on with them because confronting them only stands to rob us of even more of peace.

Sadly, the more we suppress our feelings the unhealthier we become, yet, it is not worth it to confront. It simply doesn’t work.

The healthiest move we can make is to remove these familial chaos-creators from our life by slowly but consistently, and with commitment, distancing ourselves from them, until there is no longer a connection.

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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