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Recognizing and Responding to Passive Aggressive Behavior

passive aggressive, antisocial, borderline personality

In a previous post, passive aggressive behavior was explored and some examples given of what it can look like. Passive-aggression is a dysfunctional means of communicating anger or resentment through procrastination, sullenness, pouting, obstructing, feigned forgetfulness, and other methods that avoid direct confrontation. Passive aggressive people may be seething with ...

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Passive Aggressiveness: When the Bully Plays the Victim

passive aggressive, manipulation, control, mind games, sociopathy, pathological behavior, dysfunctional, borderline, psychology

Remember how Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown each time he went to kick off, thus sabotaging the game? In Lucy’s mind, losing the championship was worth making her teammate look bad. This is a picture of passive-aggressive behavior, which is closely related to mind games, discussed in ...

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