9 Red Flags of Notorious Manipulation

Feel one of them? You are being manipulated!

Denys Opria
2 min readOct 4, 2024
Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash

If after communicating with a person you feel 1 or more of the following signs, there is a very high probability that you were brazenly manipulated.

Consciously, you may not have noticed this, but the unconscious always notices manipulations and lets you know about it.

If after communication you:

1) you feel worse than before communication

A general unpleasant feeling from communication is often from communication with manipulators, energy vampires and socially maladapted people.

2) you feel oppressed, ashamed or humiliated

Self-doubt in the style of “something is wrong with me” “I’m not what I should be” “I’m not smart/beautiful/successful enough” is a clear sign of manipulation from the outside.

3) you feel guilty or want to apologize

Manipulation due to feelings of guilt is very common, especially in communication between parents and children.

4) you feel an increased level of anxiety

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