These experts make a distinction between passive-aggressive behavior, which most people display at times, and passive-aggressive personality, which is ingrained and habitual. In milder forms it can come across as a maddening blend of evasiveness and contrition, agreeableness and impudence, and in severe cases is often masked by more obvious mental illness, like depression
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The passive-aggressive pattern usually includes the insecure pattern.
Controlling is the opposite of passive-aggressive
Assertive is the healthy goal for a passive-aggressive person.
A passive-aggressive person may need to become defiant for a while in the process of growth
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