


Alienated children may go above and beyond to please their alienating parents.It is very much like Stockholm Syndrome, but homestyle. Children in alienation situations can become trauma bonded and hyper-protective of the alienating parent.The negative things alienated children may say are not necessarily an accurate reflection of their truly held feelings and thoughts.But this can be impossible when the emotional bar is set high. The child will become committed to appeasing that parent and do everything they can to make them feel better. Children will often struggle to put down healthy boundaries with people they love, especially with an over-emotional and needy parent.Focusing and sometimes obsessing can be a coping mechanism, whereas others can become quite dysfunctional or withdraw from everything. It is something that they can control when their life is out of control. Severely alienated children can still perform exceptionally well academically and physically in sports.Some children internalise their feelings (withdraw) whilst others externalise them (act out). Alienated children don't all behave the same.They stop thinking for themselves and take on the alienating parents thoughts and feelings as if they are their own.
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The children are often unable to use their critical thinking skills when their world is full of adult emotional input.Children are not equipped with coping skills to handle emotional abuse and coercive control.The situation gets too difficult to manage, and they go where there is minimal pressure. Alienated children are under emotional pressure, which contributes to why they retract or disconnect entirely.Understand that alienated children are on a challenging journey.Alienated children have been influenced and emotionally manipulated to reject the target parent or family member. It is not the alienated child's fault.They learn showing the alienated parent love and admiration disappoints or angers the alienating parent. Alienated children do love their alienated parents, but they can feel very guilty about showing it.
