Is this a normal side effect of leaving a narcissist?

[Anonymous]

I left a narcissist physically but mentally I feel like I’ve become more supscious and less trusting of people that I know love me and mean me no harm. The same people that came to my rescue at times when my narcissist ex was abusive toward me are the same people I now have illogical suspicions of. Is that a normal side effect of finally leaving a narcissist?

[ohsheeT]

It's probably going to take you a little while to snap out of it because when you're with him your mind's working so many different directions trying to keep up with him that it's still doing that right now but it will go back to normal and you'll be able to breathe easier one of the best things you can do is go for a walk and as you're walking breathe in through your nose and out through your nose get some new oxygen up into all your brain cells and everything else every other organ in your body trick lots of water because it will toxify just it will flood your system and clean it because we are are every thought every thought that you think will happen maybe in the next moment maybe not for a week a year but it will happen we are our thoughts so in our thoughts we are energy so they can our thoughts go into every cell that we have got to just flush it out flush all that crap out but it should get better

And keep telling yourself time out wait a minute hold on no no way I'm not going to pay the price for what he's done so let it go drain it from your system you didn't do anything wrong he's the person who he is for because that's his choice so leave it with him just leave it all there with him and just walk out clean minded and that's what you have to remind yourself everyday this isn't on me I'm not going there I didn't do this I'm not going to pay for his bull crap because if you don't say this to yourself everyday you're going to be thinking about it everyday and that means you will be paying for his bull crap so let it all go

[Nikki1989]

Yes, this is often a result of the emotional manipulation and gaslighting that narcissists employ to control their victims.

[itsannalee]

Most people will need a psychiatrist after dealing with a narcissistic.

[Anonymous]

Yesss