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Originally Posted by Hooner  I see myself in all of those. Wow!
So, passive-aggressive behavior is feeling angry but not exerting that anger and taking it out in other ways?
Wow.:puppet |
Passive-aggressive is being indirect. It's like when a roomate finishes all the milk that YOU BOUGHT (!!!!) and instead of confronting him about being a greedy leacher, you say, "This sucks! I can't enjoy my cereal without milk". You would say this right in front of him of course. Some people say that sarcasm is a form of passive-agressive behavior (as mentioned in the first post). But all that other stuff mentioned is too much. Seems like that source was giving reasons why PA would be considered a personality disorder. But a lot of it seems like a stretch.
I had a session on this topic. At least I think. After reading this post, I'm beginning to think there are three separate schools of thoughts about PA. (1) A a personality disorder (2) as a personality trait (3) as a way to respond and relate to people. What's described in the second post is way different from what I've learned.
To be fair, my "class" was titled "building relationships and socializing skills" (something along those lines). We learned that there are four main ways that people can relate to another person or react to another person.
Aggressive.
Passive
Assertive
Passive-aggressive
But i think that's a different form of passive aggressive. You know what I mean?
I'm really thrown off by that second post. What's the site you got the info from? It is the typical definition of Pa (I just checked dictionary.com for back up, not that I don't believe you guys at all), but I wonder if that's no longer the case.
http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...ive-aggressive