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How do you communicate with people who have a really distorted version of reality, and are insistent that there is something inherently wrong with you that you need to "fix" or "change" in order to be accepted by them/their distorted version of reality?
And let's say, they're so immersed into their distorted reality, confronting them about this is just a nightmare. You just want to communicate with them and have a normal relationship with them, without them always turning it into how there's something wrong with you, that you need to fix or change about yourself.
It seems like things are going wrong in their life. So their way of coping is by trying to change/correct things they have control over, and the only people/circumstances they feel they have control over is their children, and how they can "help" them "fix" who they are.
Advice?
And let's say, they're so immersed into their distorted reality, confronting them about this is just a nightmare. You just want to communicate with them and have a normal relationship with them, without them always turning it into how there's something wrong with you, that you need to fix or change about yourself.
It seems like things are going wrong in their life. So their way of coping is by trying to change/correct things they have control over, and the only people/circumstances they feel they have control over is their children, and how they can "help" them "fix" who they are.
Advice?