Children of Narcissists
Children of Narcissists
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Was It That Bad? How 'Low-Key' Abuse Can Have a Profound Effect
Many people who have grown up with a narcissistic parent often question whether their childhood was ‘that bad.’ They may know they were unhappy as a child and that there was something wrong but there may be a lot of doubt in their mind as to exactly what they went through and why. It was ‘that bad,’ so why do people struggle to see that?
This is for many reasons. We start to defend ourselves from a young age in various ways which are going to interfere with our capacity to see the world in a realistic way.
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The Trauma Bond - Why We Find Ourselves Trapped in Unhealthy Relationships
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Many of us are familiar with the term ‘trauma bond,’ but what does it actually mean? How can we explain the feeling that many people have of being very unhappy in a relationship, feeling at times that they really want to leave it and being determined to do so, but they feel they are somehow stuck, frozen or trapped and they just can’t leave? Even when the relationship gets worse and worse over ...
The Harsh Inner Critic and Self-Compassion
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This video talks about why many people who come from a narcissistic family have a harsh inner critic and often struggle to have self-compassion.
Body Image, Binge Eating and Body Dysmorphia
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Many children of narcissists have a complex relationship with food which may come in the form of binge eating. Men and women can both be affected. Binge eating can be defined as episodes of overly excessive and rapid eating in a short period of time which are accompanied by a sense of a lack of control. This results in distress. There can be feelings of pleasure initially and then these devolve...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Empathy
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What influences the relationship between a person with NPD and their ability to feel empathy for others? 01.04 What is Empathy? 02.11 How Empathy Develops 03.44 Types of Empathy 04.28 Study - Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder 10.32 Empathy and the Brain 14.16 Mirror Neurons 16.22 The Influence of Attachment on Empathy 21.33 Narcissistic Rage 22.26 Diana Diamond PhD - Master Lecture 2...
Why Are Relationships So Difficult?
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Why Our Relationships with Others Can Be So Difficult An issue which troubles many people who come from narcissistic families is that they struggle in their relationships with others - this can be with work colleagues, school or university colleagues, friends, acquaintances, family members and romantic interests/partners. The struggle is in the inability for many to feel close or safe with othe...
The Price We Pay For Our Defences (Defences Series Part 5 of 5)
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This video discusses the price we pay for living within our defences. Our defences can be likened to a fortress which we build around our psyche to protect it. Whilst we may feel safer within that fortress - it can also be likened to a prison. The walls protect us and while they keep other people out and away, we can end up feeling lonely and isolated. The fortress walls are made of our behavio...
How Do We Say No When We Can't Say No? (Defences Series Part 4 of 5)
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This video addresses the difficulties many of us have in saying no to others, the reasons why we can find ourselves in that position and how we can work on changing it. When we have grown up in a narcissistic family, we have been conditioned into being compliant, passive and agreeable and we will therefore often struggle to not only know what our wants and needs are, but to be able to assert th...
Biological Defences (Defences Series Part 3 of 5)
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Our biological defences are made up of our brain, nervous system, body and emotions working together to protect us from harm. This video looks at the defences including the amygdala, the nervous system, the reptilian, mammalian and logical brains and how it all works together. The Importance of the Amygdala The amygdala is the ‘smoke alarm’ and emotional centre of the brain. When threat is dete...
Avoidance as a Defence Mechanism (Defences Series Part 2 of 5)
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What is Avoidance? Avoidance is the action of keeping away from, not doing something or preventing something from happening. What are We Avoiding? Narcissistic parents are very unstable, and their children are aware from a young age that the parent can be easily ‘set off’ and triggered into a punishing or controlling mood state. This usually takes the form of rage, criticism and silent treatmen...
Common Defence Mechanisms (Defences Series Part 1 of 5)
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There are many types of defence mechanisms which we use when feeling the need to protect ourselves. Some are primitive and some are more sophisticated. Some are more obvious while others are so well hidden from our conscious mind we may have no idea they are there unless we undergo therapy or extensive inner work. Denial Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful ev...
Boundaries and Emotional Warfare. How We Come to Fear Setting Boundaries in a Narcissistic Family.
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A boundary can be defined as a barrier which separates two things. Healthy psychological boundaries between people mean that there is respect for others and the self and the beliefs, ideas, opinions, likes, dislikes and wants and needs of all parties. A psychologically healthy person is aware that they do not have rights or ownership over another. Healthy boundaries create mutual trust. In narc...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Emotional Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
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What is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? MSBP is defined as a mental health problem in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under his or her care, such as a child, an elderly adult, or a person who has a disability. The aim of the person with MSBP appears to be to obtain attention, sympathy and in some cases, money. A parent with MSBP can cause their children to co...
Behavioural Conditioning in a Narcissistic Family
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Behavioural Conditioning and Narcissism We are products of both nature and nurture. We are born with an inherent character which adapts to the environment we grow up in. Narcissistic families are difficult to grow up in and the children will be conditioned into certain behaviours. They will become an adapted version of themselves and their real self becomes suppressed to a certain extent. Class...
Paranoia. How Children of Narcissists Become Paranoid
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Many children from abusive homes have lifelong issues with trust and very strong paranoid tendencies. This paranoia has served an important purpose during the person’s life as it was best for them to try to read the subtext in situations, expect the worst and to not take anything at face value. They will often develop strong sensitivities to reading and feeling the moods of others. They may dev...
Adverse Childhood Experiences - The ACE Questionnaire: What is Your ACE Score?
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Adverse Childhood Experiences - The ACE Questionnaire: What is Your ACE Score?
The Psychological Development of Children - Ideal and Dysfunctional
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The Psychological Development of Children - Ideal and Dysfunctional
The Chronic Expectation of Danger; Why We Fear The Worst Will Always Happen
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The Chronic Expectation of Danger; Why We Fear The Worst Will Always Happen
How Blaming Ourselves Can Help Us To Stay Sane
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How Blaming Ourselves Can Help Us To Stay Sane
Common Beliefs of Children of Narcissists
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Common Beliefs of Children of Narcissists
Why Do We Self-Sabotage?
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Why Do We Self-Sabotage?
Why Do I Feel So Hopeless?
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Why Do I Feel So Hopeless?
Core Beliefs - How they Influence Our Lives and How to Change the Ones Which Hold Us Back
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Core Beliefs - How they Influence Our Lives and How to Change the Ones Which Hold Us Back
How to Heal From Narcissistic Abuse
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How to Heal From Narcissistic Abuse
Why Do I Feel Unstable? How Our Brains and Bodies Are Shaped By a Dysfunctional Childhood
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Why Do I Feel Unstable? How Our Brains and Bodies Are Shaped By a Dysfunctional Childhood
The Fear of Being Ourselves and the Fear of Abandonment
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The Fear of Being Ourselves and the Fear of Abandonment
The Successful Narcissist. What Makes a Happy Narcissist?
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The Successful Narcissist. What Makes a Happy Narcissist?
Why do I Feel So Guilty?
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Why do I Feel So Guilty?
Common Narcissistic Behaviours
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Common Narcissistic Behaviours
Why do Narcissists Abuse People? Explaining 'Narcissistic Supply'
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Why do Narcissists Abuse People? Explaining 'Narcissistic Supply'

Комментарии

  • @rachb373
    @rachb373 День назад

    This could be describing a mother I know at my own child's school. I have raised concerns with school

  • @MuzeTitaN
    @MuzeTitaN 6 дней назад

    This is absolutely amazingly articulated. 👏 thank you

  • @makaka3353
    @makaka3353 6 дней назад

    Thank you so much for this content, when I see that channels like this exist I feel like somebody cares about us, makes me want to cry, thank you so much!!!!!😭😭😭💗💗💗💗

  • @nikhildeshpande-h8b
    @nikhildeshpande-h8b 7 дней назад

    This is how people become schizophrenic, it takes a ridiculously narcissistic home

  • @laraparks7018
    @laraparks7018 8 дней назад

    Suicide is induced by menticidal covert psychological murderers. I know many people who have committed suicide and I know exactly who and how they were pushed over the edge

  • @SequentialGeek
    @SequentialGeek 10 дней назад

    Hoes does this work considering there is no way to concentrate as we are not allowed to have job stability thanks to D E I, automation, outsourcing, and the american 'entitlement' to be 'upset' at any customer/co-worker/neighbor that is 'different'? The USA is evil, there is no hope. there is just being regulated, 'entitlement' to hate, asphalt, traffic, pills and drugs, and tiny screens for isolation and data mining -this is all that matters now.

    • @SequentialGeek
      @SequentialGeek 10 дней назад

      "It;ll be oikaaay,... things will be fine..." -how? I live in an evil entity called the U S A

  • @mptajosog
    @mptajosog 12 дней назад

    Thank you! Excellent information! 🙏🙏🙏

  • @mptajosog
    @mptajosog 12 дней назад

    #imatp

  • @mptajosog
    @mptajosog 12 дней назад

    #jerrywise #darrenfmcgee #drjordanbpeterson #drsweettexas #drphil

  • @mptajosog
    @mptajosog 12 дней назад

    Excellent!

  • @mptajosog
    @mptajosog 12 дней назад

    #imatp

  • @BAsed_AFro
    @BAsed_AFro 13 дней назад

    True intergenerational witchcraft that has largely flown under the radar, for far too long.

  • @JacquelineJuliana-w9c
    @JacquelineJuliana-w9c 13 дней назад

    Excellent information. Thank you so much!

  • @user-bo7mr2pk5i
    @user-bo7mr2pk5i 13 дней назад

    Thank you!

  • @thezekeshow9528
    @thezekeshow9528 14 дней назад

    Shocking Family Secrets Revealed #BreakTheSilence ruclips.net/video/0Bcoxqtd5Wg/видео.html

  • @DENISEASTUNO-ow1qz
    @DENISEASTUNO-ow1qz 15 дней назад

    ❤Thank you ❤

  • @JKDVIPER
    @JKDVIPER 17 дней назад

    I know why, it’s because people ascribe pedestals to themselves, judging you, changing reality, making assumptions, false beliefs, polarized thought.” 🤢👍💯absolutely annoying.

  • @cherylbommarito5569
    @cherylbommarito5569 18 дней назад

    This is a most comprehensive and well detailed compilation of the single most important aspects of narcissism and it’s deadly effects that I have found. Thank you for sharing your insights.

  • @janmcsween7079
    @janmcsween7079 18 дней назад

    The fucking bastards. I don't care how abused they were. I was abused and I did not disrespect or dehumanize children.

  • @m3llytan
    @m3llytan 22 дня назад

    Thank you so much for sharing this.

  • @cinthiasanchez7638
    @cinthiasanchez7638 23 дня назад

    I always thought this was normal but it’s not, now I see shady figures and tall men.

  • @miriamadahan1730
    @miriamadahan1730 24 дня назад

    When you are starving emotionally you eat.

  • @persiamotorman
    @persiamotorman 26 дней назад

    I find it curious when people who are likely Narcissists mistreat you and you react to it, then they come out in a fury and say something like "You must respect me!" Dealing with them on any occasion will make your head twist like a pretzel. They're ingenious at triggering a bad behavior in you and then setting you up to look bad. The people around them fall for it as well which may say something about the general lack of human intelligence or awareness, but that's a discussion for another day!

    • @childrenofnarcissists
      @childrenofnarcissists 18 дней назад

      Hi Persia, You might like to watch this video by Meredith Miller called Dog Whistling about triggering reactive behaviours: ruclips.net/video/0AavB2DYjlY/видео.html Take care.

    • @persiamotorman
      @persiamotorman 18 дней назад

      @@childrenofnarcissists Thanks, I'll do it.

  • @manthasagittarius1
    @manthasagittarius1 Месяц назад

    I'm glad you made mention in your closing remarks about "excuses." One of the things I learned when I began studying psychology that turned on the lights for me was that it's not productive to set up a dichotomy of "excuse/blame." In fact it's so limiting it shuts down decent discussion. It's not only possible, it's crucial to avoid either excuse or blame when exploring the reasons and results of disordered behavior. You will never get past them to reach "explanation" unless you stay neutral; and what you can't explain or account for, you can hardly hope to fix.

  • @richellepeace4457
    @richellepeace4457 Месяц назад

    They are demons in meat suits that have been enabled by people who feel sorry for them. Its all about the game and winning because they are predatory.

  • @manthasagittarius1
    @manthasagittarius1 Месяц назад

    Sometimes, having listened to several of your discussions now, I am finding a big chunk of relevant material falling into place and showing the interlocking parts of the structure lining up. It's starting to make me short of breath, to be honest. I've "known" this stuff about our family dynamic for many years, but I've somehow refused to let it near me or touch it without a mental hazmat suit and gloves on. This latest falling chunk hitting me in the head was how the scapegoat child may not have the capacity to play into the game rules the parent is demanding, when the golden child can and does. My brother and I were born less than a year apart, and our respective relationships with my mother were from two different planets. He was the baby and the only boy (my older sister and I used to privately refer to him "Wales," even though we are American😊). I knew by the time I was seven that she was full of crap, her values were all over the place, and she was a horrocious liar and revisionist of our family story, who COULD NOT EVER be trusted, especially with feelings; and Wales played her with great success like a violin to get his way, eventually becoming the smoothest sociopath at sixteen you ever met. She had a different purpose for each of us; but also, I was never able to hide my inner assessment of her, and she spent all her time with me trying to crush my resistance. I retreated into books,fantasy, and eventually music, which no one else in the family had aptitude for. My own country, finally. I could not have capitulated to her self-aggrandizing game had I craved to. It wasn't my assigned function, I see now. But in truth it made me sick, SHE made me sick, and now I understand she could smell it even when I never spoke or looked her in the eye. And she made me pay. My brother? I think he pitied me for an idiot, when there was so much to be gained by just playing along. "Well, then -- more for me," I could hear him thinking.

  • @PeanutGallery4Us
    @PeanutGallery4Us Месяц назад

    I have a lot of trust issues that I really want to fix.

  • @MoPoppins
    @MoPoppins Месяц назад

    Sarah, I love your channel!! 💕 I’m well along my healing journey, but it always feels good when people validate ACTUAL reality (vs. a narc’s delusions of what constitutes reality). This is such a powerful book-thank you for sharing it with us. 🙏 It’s a shame we can’t grow up knowing all of this, but hopefully, kids in this generation who are born into narc families will be able to discover MUCH sooner that they aren’t (and never were) the problem. As an INTJ, your approach to understanding & healing narcissistic abuse really resonates with me. Thanks again! 😊

    • @childrenofnarcissists
      @childrenofnarcissists 28 дней назад

      Thank you Mo. I also hope children in narcissistic families these days will discover what happened/is happening to them much much earlier. Take care.

  • @MountCrumpet16
    @MountCrumpet16 Месяц назад

    It keeps you in tune with psychos in your adult life. Silver linings.

  • @TranscendingTrauma
    @TranscendingTrauma Месяц назад

    So glad I found your channel. This is an incredibly helpful video.😊

  • @manthasagittarius1
    @manthasagittarius1 Месяц назад

    A great deal of this sounds familiar. I did not come to realize until my thirties that much of the "parenting" behaviour my siblings and I were treated to was harmful, neglectful, abusive, or just "off" in some important way that skewed expectations about what love means, and how to love and be loved. I attended a seminar in graduate school on childhood abuse that is mostly delivered as invalidation, that felt like being smacked across the head with the knowledge that it was spot on. I think the deliberate, really concentrated message that dampened any chance of protest was a series of dismissive, ridiculing comments that carried the same purpose every time: "listen to you, you crybaby/ingrate/self-absorbed little wimp, you're just SO abused, aren't you? What a joke." As if it were some kind of contest in which we weren't even contenders, first of all, for the status of "abused" or "neglected," and for which we had no valid way of discerning what a genuinely unhappy, insufficiently nurtured situation was because we were spoiled rotten by parents who really had suffered abuse and neglect during their own childhoods (the Great Depression) and had risen from the ashes to become wonderful achievers and providers. To deny that was, and still is, practically a sacrilege.

  • @Victoria-gq8gt
    @Victoria-gq8gt Месяц назад

    My mother a few years ago said that I should ' just get over it' and I 'needed counselling'. Not her, nor the family. Just me. Because I spoke up. And noone else did.

    • @manthasagittarius1
      @manthasagittarius1 Месяц назад

      Yes. The one who stirs the ashes everyone believes are extinguished is the one who will be blamed for trying to burn down the house. Want to know the real b**ch of the situation? They're genuinely horrified and perplexed about what you think you are doing at this stage of the game.

  • @amelittaberretta9109
    @amelittaberretta9109 Месяц назад

    I have been receiving a call from an older woman. I suspect that she has been put up by someone to call me, For what? What have I done to anyone.. ? Just for fun to scare me. I feel terrified of these strange call by older women, pretending it is a wrong number, when it is her co-dependent boyfriend who asked her to call me. I am sick and tired of life, and all the stressors in it.♣️🔮🐸👺👿

  • @cc1k435
    @cc1k435 Месяц назад

    If you tell someone a story and it makes them flinch, it was that bad. 😢

  • @great-garden-watch
    @great-garden-watch Месяц назад

    Finally dumped my 92 year old narcissistic mother after being belittled threatened and dismissed for 65 years. Adios lady.

    • @cc1k435
      @cc1k435 Месяц назад

      I am all for saying that just because someone is old, they aren't necessarily sweet, harmless, or deserving of great deference just for getting to an advanced age. Sometimes people are seemingly just too mean to die. 😢

    • @mariastewart9861
      @mariastewart9861 Месяц назад

      Good for you! 👏

    • @great-garden-watch
      @great-garden-watch Месяц назад

      @@cc1k435 thank you for saying that. She was getting so bad to me that my will to go on was really being challenged. It’s a horrible way to spend every day. I was really feeling the physical effects too. I have a right to a life, no?

    • @sheryl8034
      @sheryl8034 Месяц назад

      ​@great-garden-watch you absolutely have aright to live a peaceful life. I'm in a similar situation. I am going to go no contact with my 81 year old dad, I'm 49 now and feel a turning point in turning 50. I really can't imagine living another 15 ish years and feeling dread about seeing him, because he is healthy as a horse and shows no signs of popping off anytime soon. My hubby is dead against me going no contact as my dad's "too old now and vulnerable". I said I was once "young and vulnerable " but he didn't care😢. I'm proud of you. It is the hardest decision of your life I bet, that everyone judges as a "whim" "why now" etc. ❤

  • @sleepingdogslie
    @sleepingdogslie Месяц назад

    With my mother it was a look, a look of disapproval or a sarcastic tone in her voice. I never felt safe around her. I spent a lot of time alone reading in my room. Then she would say sarcastically “how nice that I could lie around reading all day.” I was a straight A student, took classical piano for 10 years and took swimming lessons and became a life guard to earn money for university. There was always something I didn’t do exactly to her satisfaction. When I left home instead of feeling the huge relief I expected, I completely came undone and almost killed myself. I never had children, and according to her it was because I was too “selfish”. She had me convinced my acne was my fault. At 42 I finally realized I couldn’t control it and the dr. prescribed Accutane. It was without a doubt the death of a thousand cuts and I couldn’t even describe it to people. She gave me nasty looks? She didn’t like me? Doesn’t sound all that terrible. 😞

    • @mariastewart9861
      @mariastewart9861 Месяц назад

      I am so sorry you had to go through that. I wish you all the love and happiness you are deserving of ❤

    • @mariastewart9861
      @mariastewart9861 Месяц назад

      For what it’s worth, I know the look. My mother also utilised contempt as punishment

    • @sleepingdogslie
      @sleepingdogslie Месяц назад

      @@mariastewart9861@mariastewart9861 Thank you, I appreciate your good wishes.

    • @sjc9118
      @sjc9118 Месяц назад

      Mine too

    • @christoffermedc
      @christoffermedc 23 дня назад

      From my perspective, your story echoes the experience I had with my father. The ceaseless feeling of inadequacy, regardless of my successes, created a profound sense of isolation. The constant fear of disappointing him, coupled with his subtle yet devastating criticisms, was emotionally draining. He claimed I 'changed' when I became a teenager, as if my natural teenage behaviors were a personal affront to him. He perceived my every action as an inconvenience, even though I excelled in school and rarely invited friends over. I noticed a stark contrast in his treatment of my younger brother. Although my brother was not as successful in school, his needs were somehow less bothersome to my father. Looking back, I now understand that this was likely a result of the 'golden child' syndrome often seen in narcissistic households. As a child and teenager, my brother and I frequently quarreled, but I didn't dislike him. I was frustrated with him for being 'needy', believing that his lack of self-sufficiency was a weakness. Now, I realize that he was more 'normal' than I was. Leaving home didn't bring the relief I expected. Instead, I to fell apart and nearly took my own life. The root of this despair was my inability to cope with the challenges of university. I had excelled in high school through sheer intelligence and enthusiasm, no parental guidance to foster discipline , this was not enough to succeed in higher education. My failure shattered the identity I had built as a brilliant person, yet I was trapped in the belief that my worth was defined by my achievements, and as I've struggled to complete my university degrees and find stable employment in my field; these challenges have led to long periods of unemployment and in turn a slow erosion of my will to live. At 36, I've begun the journey of therapy, hoping to break free from the chains that have held me back.

  • @liliasgordon3565
    @liliasgordon3565 Месяц назад

    With me it was older siblings not parents. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse - they were/are toxic. I now view my family as two separate halves. The toxic trio and my brothers and sister. When I was young I found myself wanting my "real" family to come and take me away as these guys couldn't possibly be who I was stuck with. I am now coming to terms with it and as I have minimum contact with the toxic trio I can cope however I still find myself at times seeking their approval, being heartbroken when it is not forthcoming, then have a reality check and ask myself why I need that. I hope that everyone who finds this, finds the strength to heal. Kudos to you all my fellow survivors. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @amandajephson9964
    @amandajephson9964 Месяц назад

    This video has explained more to me than 10 years of therapy in terms of being the child of a narcissistic parent. I recognise and identify with so many of the behaviours you and this book so excellently describe. Thank you so much!

  • @melissagreen_
    @melissagreen_ Месяц назад

    The guy at 7:21, I just want to give him a big hug!

  • @Zookeeper.
    @Zookeeper. Месяц назад

    After pondering a lifetime about all sorts of abuse I discovered it is akin to a wave/web of negative influences that spans wide over time and space.. This realisation made me wiser and able to _"turn the table"_ so to speak.. Any experience can be a learning one provided you have the ability to reflect on those and grow from it.. Take care and be safe 🖐️

  • @johnharrison2511
    @johnharrison2511 Месяц назад

    All that and more !! I did laugh at the list of things and could add a few more. Nonetheless i still do exist and am grateful for being able to make my own way in the world as a free person. Adversity brings resilience if you learn how to make use of things unwanted, including yourself. Upcycle..re-purpose.. Keep going...be what you always wanted, not to perpetuate bad things. Be your best you, not the next version of them.

  • @clareinnes2048
    @clareinnes2048 Месяц назад

    My mother was a narcissist and my two sisters and I were all profoundly affected by this - in very different ways due to our different personality traits, but we were and still are very deeply impacted. I have done a lot of work to deal with this, but what breaks my heart is that I still feel utterly broken inside and I feel that a fully healed place is and will forever be beyond my reach. I wonder every day what I might have been like and able to achieve if my mother had been able to love me. My saving grace was that my father did.

    • @billyb4790
      @billyb4790 Месяц назад

      Wow this could have been written by me all the way down to the father and the sister. Thanks for sharing ❤

  • @francesbernard2445
    @francesbernard2445 Месяц назад

    Thank you. My mother treated me with the kind of "low-key" abuse you describe from time to time. I prefer to see her parenting of me as having been good enough. My father was outright abusive and he was sometimes violent to the rest of my family members. My mother told me that she left me in the care of my father once while she was running an errand. When she came back he was sleeping while she had to look for me. She found me under the bed where my father was sleeping with a red area on my face while I was apparently asleep. Lucky for me she was able to wake me up. Everyone outside of our home thought my mother was saintly. At times she could be very encouraging of me too. So it was confusing. At least I was not mistreated by them on my wedding day. However I needed to acknowledge that abuse while growing up and how it affected me. I think I finally figured it out as to why she was like that while not having anyone to talk to about that because all the other still living members of my family are in denial about it. She struggled with a disease for almost all of her life while being in denial about it.

  • @Thatsbannanas-d8c
    @Thatsbannanas-d8c Месяц назад

    Ouch. That hurt.

  • @DjDiLaRa
    @DjDiLaRa Месяц назад

    So, we did remain at year 2 😂

  • @mpeters220
    @mpeters220 Месяц назад

    ...just knowing that...noone has your back.

    • @billyb4790
      @billyb4790 Месяц назад

      I often think what I went through was nothing special but I score about a 7/10 on the ACES test.

  • @clareunderwood6690
    @clareunderwood6690 Месяц назад

    Thank you for your video. I like your reassuring, sensible approach to imparting your knowledge. Very helpful. ❤

  • @thankyoujesus2836
    @thankyoujesus2836 Месяц назад

    Thank you for answering the question right away!!! As someone who’s been through it it’s hard for me to wait patiently for answers and watch a whole video because the abuser would never answer me and ignore me for hours or dismiss my questions and attempts to connect with them. So waiting out a whole video for an answer reminds me of being strung along and then kicked to the curb

  • @lillianbarker4292
    @lillianbarker4292 Месяц назад

    I remember when some elderly aunts came to visit when I was about 8 years old. They introduced me to a strange and wonderful thing-human touch and hugs. I’d snuggle up to them on the couch or lean against them. I hated to see them go but I never forgot what it felt like to be loved.

  • @LoveAllCreations
    @LoveAllCreations Месяц назад

    After years of neglect and abuse from my mother, especially, I tried to heal by going to therapy. I discovered that not only was my childhood bad, but it was a whole lot worse than I could have ever imagined. There were things I uncovered in therapy that cut to my core. I tried to talk about it with my friends and soon discovered that I wasn't believed, that I was putting on a pity-party, that I was being a negative person. This traumatised me all over again. Now, I don't have any safe family left, no friends, but I am content, because I know much more about what happened in my past. My intuition - even as a child - was right. There were some serious wrongs being done that me and my siblings were supposed to view as 'normal.' There was nothing 'normal' about any of it. I'm relieved that I am staying true to myself these days.

    • @Krissy_K888
      @Krissy_K888 Месяц назад

      Those friends were probably a reverberation of your family. You're better off without them ❤

    • @christinec8818
      @christinec8818 Месяц назад

      Your comment is the truth. People just do not want to hear anything about the reality of it. I keep to myself, rarely socialize. It takes too much effort faking being unaffected to apease others. The only good of it, is I clearly see now, that yes people did know what we were going thru as children as CHOSE to do nothing. I had suspected this as a child, but I KNOW it now as an adult.

    • @LoveAllCreations
      @LoveAllCreations Месяц назад

      @christinec8818 I am sorry you had to go through it yourself, too. You are right. It baffled me that not one adult stepped in to stand up for us children or to protect us. I know there were people who knew we were being abused and neglected. It's all just a sad history, but now I'm creating a happier future.