I like this piece of writing from the Self-Care Haven, a website developed by a graduate student at Columbia University in the States.
This article is one for your self-care collection. It’s easy to start people pleasing in recovery, particularly when you are worried about stigma in society.
‘ARE YOU A PEOPLE-PLEASER?
Symptoms include but are not limited to: saying yes when you really mean no, allowing people to trample all over your boundaries on a weekly basis without asserting yourself, and “performing” character traits or behaviors that do not speak to your authentic self.
Can cause high blood pressure and stewing resentment that festers for years until the “last straw,” at which point, sounds of an explosion erupt. You’re so tired of being Jekyll all the time you become the worst version of Hyde possible to let out all the steam that was simmering within all along.
