Toxic Relatives: Disorders That Can Cause

Perhaps you identify with many of the people who have had to deal with a toxic family because toxic family  members are more common than we think.

And sometimes we are not aware that we are submerged in one of them.

This is a complicated situation, a kind of toxicity that we cannot escape and that we cannot avoid. But did you know that  toxic families can generate or cause mental disorders ?

Today we’re going to delve a little deeper into all these things.

Toxic Families and Mental Problems

The family is very important, as this is where children are educated and begin to acquire certain skills to communicate with others and deal with the world.

Therefore, it is not hard to believe that excessive toxicity can cause severe disorders  if there is no balance and healthy emotions in the family environment.

There are many types of families, especially those that are dysfunctional, with serious overprotection problems  and other circumstances that can affect children.

These families make these children, tomorrow, suffer from psychopathologies whose origin is unknown until today.

That’s why we’ll cover some of the most interesting and real relationships between toxic families and their mental problems.

1. Toxic relatives: the Pygmalion effect and its influence on children

The pygmalion effect is the role that children adopt under the influence of their parents, that is, everything the father wants or fears for his children ends up becoming a reality.

Therefore, any label we put on our children as “it’s lazy”, “it’s bad character” can have a big impact on the child in the future.

The family has no idea how much the children are influenced by this. They don’t know that any label can be adopted later by the little ones. In some way, they contaminate your conduct.

2. Toxic relatives: loves that kill

There is a phrase that many parents or families tell their children: “no one will love you more than we do”. If this is literally taken literally, it can cause problems, even if they don’t feel very cherished in their home environment.

They will not feel entitled to complain because they will think that everything was done “for good”.

The big problem with this is that it can result in great silence in the face of extreme situations, such as abuse and emotional abuse.

It is important to know that family love may not be healthy and that is why we must question it. The family doesn’t have to be good just because it’s your family: sometimes it’s very toxic.

3. Toxic Relatives: Overprotective Parents

Overprotection can lead to problems such as emotional dependency,  and children will have an ongoing struggle into adulthood. That’s why it’s important to keep a balance and never get overprotective.

Want an insecure child? Do you want a person who doesn’t have self-confidence? Overprotection is what causes these serious emotional problems that will not be easy to get out of.

Everything that happens in our childhood marks us.

4. Toxic Relatives: Projected Desires and Insecurities

How many times in a couple’s fight have children been seen to be afraid? Despite not wanting to admit it, marital problems sometimes affect us so much that we ignore that children or teenagers are crying; it really affects everyone.

In addition, many families place their frustrations and insecurities on them, causing them to come under great pressure that they shouldn’t have been subjected to!

They are not to blame for their elders’ problems!

All of these family situations can result in depression, personality disorders, addictive situations and many other psychopathologies that get very complicated and last throughout adult life.

Were you raised with toxic family members or do you have a toxic family? What problems has this caused you? We do not choose the family, but at least we can be aware of what it is like to avoid repeating the same story with our children.

Let’s think about them a little more;  our problems are no bigger than theirs, nor are they ahead of yours.