How to Heal From Psychopathic Abuse With 2 Simple Mind Tweaks

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I was in a relationship with a psychopath for around four years.

By “psychopath” I don’t mean the mainstream understanding of this condition. One doesn’t have to be a serial killer to be a psychopath. Such people simply don’t have conscience, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t smart.

Only really dysfunctional ones would murder; most would never do it not because they feel it being wrong, but because they simply don’t want to sit behind bars.

That being cleared, I really loved him despite his constant lying, frequent attempts to generate emotional dramas and create conflicts between me and my close friends.

But when I found out that he was cheating on me, that was the last straw, and I left.

Healing is almost impossible — unless you are in the know

If you’re familiar with this condition, you must be aware that most victims do not take the separation well. In fact, most would not leave their psychopathic halves no matter how cruel they would get — because of trauma bonding.

Usually, people who got burnt by the toxic nature and abuse of psychopaths cannot heal their entire lives. They keep remembering their abuse with bitterness, and many spend their entire lives suffering from open emotional wounds inflicted by these unfeeling predators.

Fortunately, I was able to recover after the breakup because of the first tip I’m going to share with you in this article (and at that time I wasn’t even aware of his mental condition). Once I found out what psychopathy was, I completed my healing as a result of the second tip you’re about to read.

Without further ado, here are the two life-saving tips for anyone who is or has been involved with psychopaths. I will also explain how to apply the mentioned tips so that you can recover from the psychopathic abuse fully.

Two tips to survive psychopathic abuse

The two main reasons I survived psychopathic abuse were:

1. My psychopathic ex was never the number one in my life.
2. I learnt to view his condition not in a reactive way but in…