How do you know if you are in a toxic family?

Other informal disagreements to your family, your siblings bullying you towards the wall, and your dad and mom being so harsh, do not worry if the answer is yes, you are probably still good.

There is no such thing as a completely peaceful family, you can always trust that in the end you have to be there for yourself and be safe and loved. The toxic family situation is more persistent and stable.

The psychological damage caused by this dysfunctional environment creates permanent tension, discomfort conflict and fear among family members. Is this sound close to comfort?

Here are 5 signs that you may be living in a real toxic general environment.

• YOU FEEL INVISIBLE

-Ignoring your needs by your family can be very detrimental to your mental health and self-esteem. It's easy to feel invisible when your parents always act too busy, or when none of your siblings want to make time to hang out with you.

-No one seems to care what you are doing, what you are feeling, what you have to say. Instead of communicating openly and honestly with each other like a healthy family, you make yourself feel lonely and insignificant.

• YOU FEEL MISUNDERSTOOD AND DISCARDED

-Maybe you have tried to talk to them or you think they are obvious signs of what you are doing, but no one in your family understands or cares about you, your feelings go away and nothing is considered important to what you do. Even if you cry for help, they will not support you. Even when you have problems, you tend to disagree and be indifferent.

• YOU FEEL FORCED TO BE AROUND THEM

-Another sign of a toxic family is that you feel suffocated when you are around. You come home and hang out with them just because you feel like you have no choice.

-Trying to make your life easier will make you feel guilty even if you are ashamed to leave it. You are portrayed as a villain who makes you feel so helpless in the vicious cycle of poverty that you can even lie to breathe, but with a little break, a sense of relief. It will feel different.

• YOU FEEL CONSTANTLY AND UNHAPPY BEING AROUND THEM

-I know that sometimes we have bad days, days when it is difficult for your family to be around someone. Okay, it happens and it's not unhealthy. In a toxic family situation, the feeling is quite constant, in fact, you can say that it is the norm that how you feel about your family, they drag you into their overwhelming and persistent negativity.

-They constantly cry and complain about the injustice of life, when good things happen. They find a way to turn it into something bad. Since they can never afford to be happy or satisfied, neither can you. If you are not only unhappy, they may resent you for it.

• YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE WORTH DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU CAN GIVE AND NOT WHO YOU ARE

Are your family members friendly to you only when they want something from you? Do you know that if you act carefully, you will ask for something afterwards?

-Saying yes to these questions is an undeniable red flag of the poisonous family. Compared to acting this way, manipulating you well, using you for their own benefit, nothing more for them than a means to achieve a goal that they continually take without ever giving anything back. Worse, if you give in to their demands, a positive feedback loop is created encouraging them to take advantage of you even more.

--These toxic elements can build up like a layered stone over time, until bad things become so memorable that you have to drop them to save yourself.

Living in a toxic family is a constant threat to your mental health. Leaving the family does not have to undo the devastating consequences. Psychological scars can bother you for a long time and will never heal without proper treatment.

So if you are struggling to separate these people from your life and create healthy boundaries for yourself, this is not a mistake, in fact it is healthy. You do not need to go through in silence and also you aren't alone.

Contact a mental health professional or social worker for the help you need to protect yourself from future emotional harm. The first step to recovery is simply recognizing the signs.

Do any of these signs resonate with you? Do you know someone who is or was in a situation? I hope they help you understand the world around you a little better. Thank you for reading!