You may think you just need a new vitamin, a few extra hours of sleep, or that you are simply getting older, but the sudden hair loss in the shower, the freezing cold hands, and the random shortness of breath when you are just sitting on the couch are not a medical mystery. They’re the physical receipts of what a narcissist is doing to you behind closed doors, or what they may have done to you. When you live in a constant state of fear, waiting for the next massive argument or the next freezing silent treatment, your brain actually tells your body that you are in deep physical danger. The constant anxiety and walking on eggshells force your body to burn through all its fuel, vitamins, and minerals — just to survive the day. Your nervous system works so hard to protect you from their mind games that your body is literally starving from the inside out.
Today our topic is seven signs your body is starving after narcissistic abuse. To truly understand how this emotional damage turns into physical starvation, we have to look at what happens to your biology when you’re trapped in a survival state. But before we do, I have something special for you.
Number one: freezing cold hands and feet.
When a narcissist starts a chaotic argument or you feel the heavy tension in the room and know an explosion is coming, your body goes into pure fight-or-flight mode. Your brain believes you are about to be physically attacked, so it instantly pulls warm, oxygen-rich blood away from your hands and feet and pushes it directly into your heart and large muscles so you can run away. It’s exactly like closing the heating vents in the empty rooms of a house to keep the main living room warm during a terrible winter. When you live with a narcissist, your body is trapped in this winter storm every single day. Your hands and feet stay freezing cold because your body is literally starving them of warm blood to keep your heart protected from daily panic. This deep biological panic also causes the second major sign of starvation.
Number two: hair thinning or falling out in clumps.
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