11 Powerful GASLIGHTING Responses That'll Shut Narcissists Down
Or at the very least empower YOU.
11 Gaslighting Phrases Used by Narcissists - And Powerful Responses To Shut Them Down
"Gaslighting Phrase #11: I can’t do this anymore, you’re always trying to start an argument or a fight.
Affirm or respond: "Having a basic conversation is not a fight unless you make it one. If I bring up something heinous you said or did, that doesn’t make me the problem. Since you’re not dealing with the actual problem, this discussion is over...
Gaslighting Phrase #4: You need to let things go and let the past go! You don’t know how to forgive.
Affirm or respond: I don’t have to let things go if you’ve harmed me. You’re not the arbiter of how I process or heal from things. If you didn’t want me talking about the past, you shouldn’t have repeated it in the first place." - Shahida Arabi, MA