What is the right psychology term to describe this? Imagine a person who is very passive/unassertive, and lets himself get taken advantage of, used, or disrespected. He is aware of it, but is too nice or unassertive to speak up about it. He bottles his true feelings about it for a period of time, until he cannot take it any longer and has an aggressive outburst. Usually the person's aggression will be a "delayed reaction" to something that happened a little while back, which he'd never reacted to but now highly regrets having been taken advantage of. This is similar to Jim Carey's character in "Me Myself & Irene" but not as severe...no split personalities involved. My friend says it is "passive-aggressive," but I thought that was something different. I'm talking about someone who bottles up their anger/resentment, and the longer that the anger is bottled up and/or the disrespect is tolerated, the more amplified the outburst is later on. Is there a term for this "abnormality"?
2007-02-16 06:22:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
the link explains passive-aggressive. the person you describe is emotionally impaired and needs to learn to express himself better in the beginning. there might be self-esteem issues, too.
2007-02-16 06:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This abnormality is called immaturity. When you allow others to take advantage of you and then throw a temper tantrum!
2007-02-16 06:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by Grandma Shorty 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
passive aggressive
2007-02-16 06:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by Lucky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋