When you are constantly dealing with a narcissist’s wild mood swings, your body is flooded with cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, and other stress hormones. Pumping that much stress through your veins requires a massive amount of energy and minerals. Because your body is desperately trying to keep you alive through the daily trauma, it stops sending nutrients to parts of you that are not essential for survival. It’s like a tree dropping its beautiful leaves early to save water and survive a harsh drought. Your body decides that growing hair is a waste of precious energy right now, so it starves the hair follicles, causing your hair to become brittle, break off, and fall out in the shower.
As your body shuts down these normal functions, it also changes the way you take in the world around you.
Number three: unexplained shortness of breath, also known as air hunger.
You may be perfectly safe on your couch reading a book, but suddenly feel like you cannot take a full, deep breath. You feel like you’re quietly suffocating. When you live with a narcissist, you spend your entire life bracing for the next emotional blow. You walk on eggshells, keep your shoulders tight, and constantly hold your breath without even realizing it. Over months and years, your chest muscles become locked up. It feels like you are wearing an invisible, tight metal vest because you are only taking tiny, shallow breaths from the top of your chest. Your body is literally starving for deep, rich oxygen. This constant lack of oxygen and high stress leads straight into the next terrifying physical symptom.
Number four: tingling sensations, needle-prick feelings, or numbness in your hands, arms, and legs.
Your nervous system is like the electrical wiring inside the walls of a house. When things are calm, the electricity flows properly. But a narcissist is constantly flipping your emotional switches up and down, overflooding your circuits with fear, guilt, and confusion. Over time, that constant electrical surge fries your wiring. Your body burns through its deep vitamin reserves just to handle the massive emotional shocks. When those biological reserves run empty, your nerves start to misfire. You feel pins and needles, strange numbness, or random tingling because your body’s electrical system is out of the power it needs to function normally.
And while your internal wires are burning out, your external body begins to visibly dry up.
Number five: chronically dry, aching eyes.
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