Tag: Psychological

Get Parasite Narcissist Out of Your Colonized Mind

The video detailed the psychological mechanisms narcissists use to control and manipulate victims, including shared fantasy, dissociative states, and brainwave entrainment, which lead to the victim’s mind being hijacked and emotions and thoughts becoming artifacts of the abuser. It highlighted the profound effects of abuse on memory, identity, and self-regulation, explaining how trauma bonding and prolonged grief disorder perpetuate suffering even after the abuse ends. The discussion emphasized the necessity of memory recovery, differentiation of authentic self from implanted interjects, and individuation as critical steps toward healing and reclaiming one’s identity. Get Parasite Narcissist Out of Your Colonized Mind

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How Covert Narcissist Deceives Covert Borderline and He Loves It (2nd in Odd Couples Series)

This video explored the complex dynamics between covert borderline and covert narcissist personalities in intimate relationships, highlighting their psychological interplay, emotional compatibility, and conflicts. Key points included the covert borderline’s capacity for real love and moral rigidity contrasting with the covert narcissist’s envy, deception, and emotional dysfunction, creating a turbulent and often adversarial relationship. Despite significant incompatibilities, the covert borderline’s longing for idealized love and the covert narcissist’s deceptive fulfillment of that fantasy often bind them together in a dysfunctional but enduring cycle. How Covert Narcissist Deceives Covert Borderline and He Loves It (2nd in Odd Couples Series)

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Love Addiction: Craving Infatuation, Limerence

This video is focused on the concept of love addiction, describing it as a behavioral addiction characterized by excessive, fantasy-driven infatuation and dysregulated, unbounded behaviors often linked to codependency and personality disorders. Love addicts, predominantly women, seek the intense emotional rush of falling in love rather than genuine intimacy, leading to unhealthy relationships, compulsive behaviors, and emotional distress. Treatment is challenging, involving cognitive behavioral therapy and self-help groups, but remains limited due to the deep psychological needs and low self-awareness underlying the addiction. Love Addiction: Craving Infatuation, Limerence

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Narcissist’s Missing Kali Mother

The video explored the complex, ambivalent relationship between individuals and their mothers, using the Hindu goddess Khali as a metaphor for the dual nature of motherhood—both nurturing and destructive, embodying death and rebirth. It emphasized the mother’s role in facilitating the child’s separation and individuation through a process of symbolic destruction and rebirth, crucial for personal growth and self-realization. The discussion also highlighted the evolution of Khali’s perception from a terrifying deity to a compassionate maternal figure, reflecting the psychological development of the child’s view of the mother. Narcissist’s Missing Kali Mother

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Not Trauma, Nor Bonding, But Addiction to Intermittent Reinforcement (“Hot and Cold” Mixed Signals)

Sam Vaknin clarified that “trauma bonding” is a misnomer, emphasizing that it is not related to trauma or bonding but is actually an addiction to intermittent reinforcement provided by an abuser’s fluctuating idealization and devaluation. He explained that this process addiction involves craving the abuser’s gaze, which idealizes and devalues the victim, creating a compulsive behavioral pattern similar to substance addiction. The discussion also defined key terms such as addiction, bonding, trauma, and intermittent reinforcement to highlight that trauma bonding is best understood as a behavioral addiction rather than a psychological trauma or genuine attachment.

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Why Narcissists Don’t Share

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How Your Body Processes Narcissistic Abuse (NEW+Compilation)

The discussion focused on somatization and its connection to psychological trauma, particularly narcissistic abuse, explaining how psychological distress can manifest as physical symptoms without an identifiable medical cause. It detailed the evolution of related diagnoses from somatization disorder and conversion disorder to somatic symptom disorder and functional neurological symptom disorder, highlighting the psychological roots often dismissed in modern diagnostic manuals. Emphasis was placed on the complexity of these disorders, their impact on victims, and the frequent misinterpretation or invalidation of symptoms by medical professionals.

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