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I write about mental health topics. I'm the author of the book 'Are You In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship?'and founder of Narcissistic Abuse Rehab.
FLYING MONKEYS ARE ENABLERS who act on behalf of narcissists. They are usually friends and relatives who serve as surrogates, emissaries, fixers and drones in the narcissist's network. Moreover, they make it possible for narcissists to carry out their campaigns of abuse by proxy.
COERCIVE CONTROL is a term coined by Dr. Evan Stark of Rutgers University to describe the hidden, invisible psychological violence many survivors of domestic violence experience in toxic relationships. It is a component of narcissistic abuse. Coercive control is a kind of emotional terrorism that aims to subjugate a targeted person and give the abuser total control.
IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT the ability to generate authentic joy, love, or compassion. It's hardly a stretch to suggest that one's internal ecosystem would be a bleak and desolate landscape. However, if you were to open up the mind of a pathological narcissist and look inside, what you would find is a psychological wasteland riddled with persecutory objects.
I guarantee there is an entire generation that will instantly relate the word isolation to the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. I do not. I will not. Every time I hear that word, my past haunts me. Images flash in my mind. But they are not of the present social distancing, wearing a mask, quarantine, and antibody testing.
PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL ABUSE: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE was made to provide you with greater knowledge of this fundamental component of narcissistic abuse. This information will give you a clear understanding of: Let's get started. Psycho-emotional abuse describes any non-physical pattern of behavior that intentionally harms an individual's mental state and undermines their ability to reach their full potential.
It often comes as a shock to people who have children with pathological narcissists how easily some of them abandon their children. Many narcissistic parents have an emotionally immature worldview. They see the world in terms of "good" or "bad", "black" and "white", "wrong" or "right."
No Contact is a solution that has helped many survivors recover from narcissistic abuse. The survivor severs all ties with the narcissist so that they can process the relationship and apply themselves to whatever self-work is needed to recover. For many survivors, No Contact is an essential strategy for achieving total healing from narcissistic abuse.
Survival in a narcissistic family depends on each family member's ability to take on and reinforce the assigned roles, toxic attitudes, and habits of the narcissist. No one is safe from a narcissist's pernicious scrutiny, not even their children. In the narcissist's view, anyone who does not echo their image of themselves is rejecting them.
This is made painfully clear when they inflict harm on someone and, astonishingly, escape accountability by flipping the script and blaming the person they've...
A distinguishing feature of narcissistic family dynamics is dysfunction. The more malignant a narcissist is, the more they are prone to ignore healthy boundaries to satisfy their need for control. Narcissists think nothing of using their children to dominate and manipulate the other parent.