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Originally Posted by pegasus
[b]I always find myself feeling totally dumbstruck and unable to say anything back.
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Yes! I am the same way. I also take them personally and often get depressed. I am not good at power games.
Since I suffer from c-PTSD, I have a tendency to freeze and not be able to speak in response to insults. I just lack the ability to be spontaneous. I have been reading a self-help book about this "freezing" problem. I have had it for years. I am like a deer frozen in the headlights of an oncoming car. It could also be my inability to listen to what they are really trying to say. I generally do listen but don't acknowledge it well. Still, I don't know. The bottom line is that, since I lack the ability to be verbally spontaneous, I usually don't reply at all to insults. I don't know what is more frustrating - what they say or my inability to reply.