Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Find your path to healing. Recovering from emotional and verbal abuse.
Understanding Narcissistic Abuse
This form of abuse is particularly cruel and perceivable invisible. After all, there are no visible bruises. This is what your abuser wants you to think, but being verbal and emotionally manipulated will leave the same effects as physical abuse. I want you to know that I see you.
What narcissistic abuse looks like:
Manipulation and Gaslighting: Twisting the truth to make you doubt your reality.
Isolation: Cutting you off from your friends and family.
Verbal Assault: Using words to demean you, belittle you, and control you.
Emotional Neglect: Withholding affection or attention as a form of punishment.
Financial Control: Restricting access to finances to control your actions.
The Cycle of Abuse
You may be idolized at the beginning (love bombing), but over time that will turn into devaluing you with criticism. Eventually, you will experience them discarding you, only to find they won’t go away.
Trauma Bond
When you find yourself going back and falling into the cycle even though you know it isn’t good for you, this could be a trauma bond. This is your brain seeking the chemical response created by the cycle. It is bonded by the intermittent reinforcement of unpredictability.
Gaslighting
It benefits them when they can convince you that your reality is not real. They will say that you have a bad memory or that things simply did not happen and you start to wonder if they actually did or not. You are not alone. This is a common trait among manipulators who have a need for control.
Feeling alone and questioning your reality?
People who use these tactics to control you are very specific in approaching empathetic and caring individuals to gain their supply. They change once they have you believing they are someone else, the person you always dreamed of. They start to project their own faults and negative behaviors onto you, blaming you for their issues to avoid accountability. They bring others into the relationship dynamic to create jealousy, competition, or divide and conquer, thus maintaining control over you. They lack empathy and exploit you to benefit them. All of these experience cause you to break down slowly over time and become a shell of who you once were. You have taken the first step in gaining your power back by being here. We are here to help.