Intimidation - Yet, Another Co-Dependence Cause
Those who have had difficult births are also vulnerable to trauma that can be interpreted as intense feelings of intimidation. Infants are very dependent and vulnerable to verbal and physical abuse. Humankind in their formative years (zero to five years of age) are vulnerable to verbal and physical abuse. Women are quite vulnerable to physical and verbal abuse as well. Men are most certainly more vulnerable to verbal abuse than they are to physical abuse (some men would disagree with me). However, all of the previous examples can be experienced as "intimidation".
Intimidation can result in the disease of co-dependency. The four main categories of co-dependency are control, compliance, denial, and low self-esteem. "Pleasers" could have experienced profound intimidation and as a result they cannot help but to give in to, please their intimidators by saying "yes" to individuals who have control issues.
When the intimidation is overwhelming the intensity of the feelings of fear can cause knee jerk reactions that cause a pleaser to agree to whatever the controller asks. It's truly a tough pattern to contradict but the pleaser who is intimidated must find the strength somehow to stand up for themselves. Otherwise, low self-esteem is the result.
Through the methods described in "My Letter to Petra", the co-dependent can find the support, the strength to contradict the disease.
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Joel V. BA, Education, BBA, Business Administration, M.A., Master's in Psychology, Human Behavior
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