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When people go through trauma in life, they are being diagnosed with PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This is when a singular event happens, for instance an experience of a car accident, a tsunami, rape or abuse one time. This is the most known trauma to the public.

But there is a different kind of trauma. This has been spoken of more the last few years, and is called C-PTSD. These people who get this diagnosis, are living in a constant "war-zone" in their whole life. It mostly starts in childhood, with children living in abusive environments, where they never get any time to recover, since there constantly will be new traumas all the time. These traumas are never being resolved, so the child learns to live vigilantly, in fear, anxiety, and depression. The definition for PTSD doesn´t cover what C-PTSD brings to the table. These children were born targets to the abusor, or abusors, right from the start.

Complex psychological trauma involves multiple repetitive chronic stressors. It´s not one event. It´s the danger in the whole life situation, that the child experiences every day. C-PTSD comes when someone is chronically, repeatedly, exposed to traumatic events over years. It usually involves harm from those people in their lives, who should have been care givers. So the ones who were there to care for the child, were the ones who do the traumatizing. It often occurs in developmentally vulnerable times. So it has a tremendous potential to severly compromise human development.

It´s a whole different thing to be traumatized by your father, than by a tsunami. They are premeditated, always caused by other human beings. They involve profound relational betrayal, because it´s usually some kind of care giver, and a profound deception. It´s usually repeated, chronic, and the child is being marinated in trauma from birth. This child was supposed to develop, grow and blossoming, but is instead buried in this stuff called chronic trauma at every stage of their development. It can be physical abuse, sexual, emotional abuse, chronic neglect in the childs life.

C-PTSD describes people who has layers of trauma. All the different traumas have an accumulative effect over the life span.The factors in creating C-PTSD in a childs life includes: first of all it results in disorganized and insecure attatchments. How do you bond with parents who damage you chronically? They are exploited wherever they are vulnerable. Victims of this kind of trauma live in constant distress. And that has profound physiological impact, on the brain, on the adrenal gland, all kinds of things that often last life long. They are not only under constant stress, but there is no exit door. If you´re five years old you can´t get away, when your father is raping you. So they have gross insecurity, instability, and ongoing pain and suffering. In such an environment an individual never gets to regain emotional equilibrium.

Think of a car accident. If you´re hurt, and need to be hospitalized, and you´re afraid to get behind the wheels again. Eventually you get some emotional equilibrium, and little by little can claim that area of your life back. But when you live with chronic trauma there´s no place to do that. There´s no equilibrium to gain. C-PTSD is not a terrifying event, it´s rather a terrifying life.

As a result of this, the individual will be extremely vigilant. Very watchful for danger all the time, constantly expecting it. Live with chronic anxiety, and terror. All their psychological energy is bent by necessity towards cooping, which means things like hiding, self protecting rather than having that psychological energy bent to learning, which is where a healthy child in a healthy environment gets to go. They get to imagine, experiment, to test, be valued for who they are, experience, and to learn. They don´t have to keep cooping with trauma all the time. The victim is being betrayed, and is often not even being separated from the caregiverers or nurterers, or they are stuck with those who are not. There is no safe person in their life. They don´t know what that means.

Developementally children are malleable, like clay, they are capable of being shaped. So they are developing a sense of person. When the child is born, you don´t know who it is, neither does the infant, the infant hasn´t discovered himself yet. The child is looking for answers to: who am I, what am I good at, do I matter, am I loved, do I have impact- if I cry does somebody come? Just as children learn to walk, eat, dress, so do they develop a sense of self, personhood. An awarness, definition, of my "self". The impact of interpersonal violance in that process is staggering. Secondly, C-PTSD involves betrayal at its core. The child is being hurt by someone they are supposed to be able to trust, parent, grandparent, siblings, uncles, aunts, coaches, teachers, who should be care takers, teachers, protectors.

Those who should help, not only fail to help, but repeatedly morally damage the child, and erode their sense of self. So the self is marinated in abandonment, deception, blame, humiliation and isolation. When you marinate something, you do it so the flavour gets all the way in. So when a child gets marinated in this way, the damage gets all the way in.

The child developes a deep and abiding sense of shame. Children think egocentricly, they believe they are the center of universe. Because they think that way, when something bad happens, they believe that´s their own fault. So if parents are going through a difficult divorce, the child might believe it´s their fault. A child can´t see beyond itself, it´s how humans develop.

And often those bad things that the child assume responsibility for, that responsibility is reinforced with blaming words, shaming, by the supposed care taker. An uncle would for example say to a ten year old girl "I wouldn´t sexually abuse you, if you weren´t so sexually seductive. " So she thinks she is the center of the universe, and he blames her, so she think that who she is, is bad. Children that are growing up in C-PTSD don´t see themselves as children that do bad things, they see themselves as the essence of bad. So they believe that the "self" is disordered.

It has been found that people with C-PTSD had additional disorders up to eight times more than the individuals without PTSD. They often have major depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, dissociative disorder, addictions, you have a whole page full of diagnosis. Maybe all these diagnosis are subsets of one diagnosis, C-PTSD.

There are parts in the developement that changes, when the individual has C-PTSD, so when you get to be an adult, these things are being different, than they would have been in a different environment. The most severe traumas are the ones that happens the younger the child is.

The first has to do with regulating your emotions and impulses. People who have been in prolonged trauma, tend to overreact to stress. They become easily overwhelmed. They exhibit intense anxiety and fear. They have very difficulty to calming themselves down. They do not know how to self sooth. They are often self destructive, have eating disorders, addictions, injury, cutting, things like that. They don´t know how to modulate fear and anxiety. How to manage impulses. Addictions and self harm makes people feel numb, instead of intense anxiety and panic attacks. Addictions also helps individuals to remove themselves from the trauma emotionally.

There´s also changes in the ways the individuals need to attend to, and be aware of things. Chronic trauma, is by definition, unescapable. It´s very distressing, it overwhelmes all the normal cooping mechanisms that humans use. If someone is hurting you, you get away if you can. Or you fight back, if you can. Or tell them to stop. You get help. None of those things help when a child is being chronically traumatized.

So when there´s no way, to get away from that which is terrifying and overwhelming, the only way to get away is in the head. Children that live this way, often use dissociation, by taking the mind away from the present, and putting it away somewhere where there´s no awarness of the trauma. While someone is being sexually abused, they can take themselves to the corner of the roof in the room, and hide behind the flower in the tapestry.

So the capacity to take away the mind (the awarness) from the ongoing abuse, gets habituated over time. And what that does is, to people that are terrified all the time of being abused, they are not being able to protect themselves. Research has shown that women that have been frequently raped, are more times subjected to rape than others. When a rape victim is out in an alley at night, and hears someone coming, their mind spontaneously "leave", and they become unaware of their surroundings and the threats, that are approaching. It´s like being set up for another rape. She can´t pay attention to what´s going on, and to protect herself. She needed this mechanism for her survival as a child, but as an adult it becomes a huge problem. She unconsciously quits processing what´s happening around her, and becomes blind in a way. She retreats into her hiding place inside her mind. She´s unaware, blocking out what she hears. And she is obviously more likely to get hurt. What happens when an experience is being blocked, is that the emotions are not being regulated. People who survived the holocaust, are experiencing the same survival mechanisms as individuals with C-PTSD. The symptoms are similar.

Other ways of being changed, is destruction of the way we see ourselves. They become to see themselves as damaged, flawed, defective, incompetent, markt. Like anybody can tell. Unloveable, undesireable and feel helplessness. Victims blame themselves, and dont´t belive anyone will understand. So they try to forget and minimize what happened. They carry a great sense of shame. Not only because what was being done to them, but because of that they believe it was done to them because of who they are.

It also changes the perception of the perpetrator in the victim. Many victims constantly think about their abusor. They are terrified that the abusor is going to show up. They feel controlled by him, even if he´s long dead. They will take the perpetrators view of themselves, so they attribute total power to the abusor.

There are sometimes children that live in a family where the father is the perpetrator, and the mother is abscent minded, does nothing, and doesn´t connect with the child. If the father sometimes shows kindness in that environment, it does all kinds of scrambled things in the head of the child. This is the one that buys new shoes, takes the child to the school, cooks food, puts the child to bed at night, and this is the one that rapes the child at night. The parent creates a particualr bond with the child, and the child gets attached. This bonding is necessary for the child to grow up. But it´s also a terrible dilemma.

This victimazation creates no models for the individuals of how healthy relationships should look like. So they don´t know how to relate to other people in a healthy way. You can´t do what you´ve never seen, and can´t imagine. It´s not possible to picture that in the head.

When victimized people see situations where abuse is going on, they immediately feel helplessness. Chronic trauma impacts the body phyciologically for the rest of their lives, and it changes the brain.

Chronic trauma changes the stress response systems in the body, the capacity to evaluate stimuli. It hinders information processing. So, when all these things are going on in the body, what happens to the child when he goes to school, and trying to learn how to read? They are set up for a failure. Traumatized individuals have overreactive nervous systems. They have an exaggerated startle response. Overproduction of certain chemicals results in constant anxiety. They don´t know what it´s like not to be anxious. They have a great difficulty in sleeping, which also has a huge impact on their health. Research has also shown immunsystem dysfunction in many women, with history of chronic childhood abuse, and also that it creates autoimmune diseases.  

The final change is the change in spiritual meaning. It results in despair, hopelessness. These individuals have a very difficult time, in making sense out of life. And they believe that a god that allows such abuse, is very confusing at best, and evil at worst.  

So to process a history of chronic brutal trauma threatens every belief, formerly or currently heald. After abuse has happend it changes the victims life forever. But when truama begins in early childhood, there is no before. Trauma involves events that threatens life, safety, it takes away choice. You don´t get to say if you want it or not, and results in overwhelming fear. These individuals feel very lonely, they often are, they feel helplessness, they often are, humiliated, they often are, and without hope. So following trauma, the portion of the whole person turns inwards, away from life. They can´t handle "outside-here" and "inside-here" at the same time. So much of the childs energy is turned inside, so they can´t process reality.  

A recovery involves a reversal of the experience of trauma. So you have to understand the dynamic of trauma, so that you can reverse the trauma in whatever care giving relationship you have with them. Trauma silenses human beings. Partly because there´s no words describing what it´s like. It brings emotional darkness, isolation, the feeling as if nobody cares, and if they did they wouldn´t understand. It makes time stand still, because they get so lost in what happened, so they can´t see ahead. Many victims are silensed and have great difficulties in sharing their experience of chronic trauma. They do need to talk, but they have to decide for themselves when to share, how and to whom. There´s three main thing that is needed, to reverse trauma. All three must happen. Talking, tears and time.  

Trauma disconnects us from our relationships. Talking abut the trauma gives a caring connection with the receiver. Facing a new world full of losses creates an incredible grief. They have feelings of fear, sadness, isolation, shame, dispair and anger. These are strong emotions, and are hard to experience. And since they cannot regulate their emotions, they get completely overwhelmed again by their own feelings. But feelings must be expressed, because they tell the story as much as the words do. They tell us the story of the impact the abuse had in the emotions. It shows the story what the abuse did emotionally, in the same whay that blood does in a cut wound. It´s like seeing and attending the physical wounds after a car accident. It takes tremendous courage to face chronic trauma. People shouldn´t do it alone, they need a safe connection with a wise and patient person, that is able to receive the pain without trying to fix it. Whether a memory is spoken of or not, it continues to impact individuals their whole lives.

Time does not heal all wounds. If you´ve got an infection on your leg, time might lead to you losing it. The healing must include the talking and the tears. The victim has to be reminded that healing takes time, because the process of dealing with the trauma can be so overwhelming.  

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1. They will never apologize.

Narcissists think that they can do no wrong. They hold themselves to such high-esteem to the point wherein they think that they are always right about everything. That is why whenever they do screw up in life (and they do screw up all the time, as all people do), they will never admit it by saying sorry. They think they are above apologies because they think that everything that goes wrong in the world is always the fault of other people

2. They will never assume responsibility of their faults.

These narcissists think that they are perfect human beings. They never accept whenever they stumble or fall. They always want things done their way. Whenever they commit a blunder, they would never be one who takes ownership over it. They would always find a way to pass the blame to someone else because in their eyes, they are virtually incapable of being imperfect. If something goes right, they think that it’s because of them. If something goes wrong, they think that it’s never their fault.

3. They will never be introspective.

For someone who is a little self-obsessed, a narcissist can lack lots of self-awareness. Though they think of themselves all the time, they rarely ever see themselves in an objective light. They will never be the kinds of people who will meditate on their philosophies or reflect on their actions. They are impulsive and they will do anything that they fancy. They aren’t very analytical beings and they always act on their own accord without much thinking.

4. They will never be forgiving.

Aside from being the kind of person who never apologizes, a narcissist is also the kind of person who never accepts apologies. They think that because they are supposedly perfect individuals, they are entitled to anything that they desire. They always expect the world to bend at their will and they will never tolerate anything less than their expectations. They are not forgetful people and they will always hold a vendetta against the people whom they feel have wronged them.

5. They will never be thoughtful or selfless.

There are few things more miserable than dating a narcissist who never thinks twice about you. These narcissists will never be generous. They would never act out of kindness unless they know that it would serve their best interests. Everything that they do in life is only motivated by their own selfish desires. They are not the kind of people who would do things out of the pure kindness of their hearts without expecting anything in return. There always has to be something in it for them.

6. They will never reveal their true emotions.

The narcissist loves being the center of attention. They thrive under the spotlight and they absolutely adore it when all eyes are on them. They are also incredibly skilled at putting up a façade of themselves. Narcissists lack the kind of self-awareness that is necessary for people to really understand what they are feeling inside. Since narcissists don’t truly understand their emotions, they will always tend to close their feelings off to people on the outside. It’s their way of protecting themselves from something they don’t really understand.

7. They will never be empathetic or sensitive to other people.

If a narcissist has difficulty grasping his/her own true feelings, then what more with other people? They don’t really have a good read of other people’s emotions. That is why they can come off as being very insensitive and tactless people. They will speak their mind regardless of how their words can impact other people because they don’t really care that much.


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The western culture has become perverted in so many ways by narcissists and sociopaths. Take for example this song; "I love the way you lie", by Rihanna and Eminen, it says it all. The narcissists hijack all areas of life, all concepts, and twist and turn them around to being something totally different, than they really were meant to be originally. The degradation is ingrained in our whole western mass culture, and it´s rampant. A lot of the music, mainstream media and movies today are so perverted, and twisted in such a sick way, that I feel alienated from a lot of  it. It´s twisted so, that it´s the victims fault, if they feel bad when they´re being abused, like in the song I mentioned above.

Movies often have a 'happy' ending, where the girl has been played and gamed by the boy, and at the end of the movie it cuts in a 'loving' kiss and a 'promising' future.When the movie ends, we don´t get to see the continuing abuse. We are just supposed to fill in the blanks and assume that he came around and became "good". That 'that' is 'love' happily ever after. Never do they enlighten us to the fact, that this guy is rutten to his core. This girl just looks puzzled and asks "Why does he do that" in confusion, when he abuses her. We never get the answers to that question. After all; it´s our "choise" to be in a relationship? I´ll expand on this so called "choise" later on.

If we just corrupt our own thoughts and emotions enough, we will be just 'fine'. With the corruption I mean, not taking our emotions seriously, and ignoring our intuition. To second guess the natural reaction of pain and anxiety, that are the effects of abuse. Saying to oneself: "don´t be so sensitive, you´re overreacting", to minimize the gutfeeling. "To feel bad is always ones own fault, you can control your emotional state?". " It´s just insecurity". "We are after all adults?". "He doesn´t mean it that way". It´s twisted so that if we feel bad from how we´ve been handled by an abusor, we´re the 'sick' one, and that´s our own fault. This concept creates a sense of isolation within us.

All the songs and music about "Love" that "hurts", the movies with women that are being treated badly, teach and program us, about the narcissistic pervertion of a 'love'-concept, that has nothing to do with real love. Movies and songs don´t teach us about real love, they program us of the narcissistic perversion of their concept of "love".

They teach us, that the victims are the ones that are supposed to do all the work. To selflessly and unconditionally give of themselves to the abusor. In reality, real love never hurts. Sure, a misunderstanding or an overstepped boundary can hurt, even if it´s not intentionally overstepped. But love in itself is pure. It´s the belief that love is something that it´s not, that hurts. The deception and the concept of narcissistic "love". But in reality, they have no concept of what real love is. That´s the corruption, they aren´t able to connect with themselves and others in a way, so that real love is accessible to them. It´s abscent in their mind set.

The myth is that "girls love bad guys", and a rape gets twisted so that "she wanted to get raped". Women really don´t love bad guys, but they are targeted by bad men, the narcissists. Then there of course are female narcissists too. The narcissists love to create confusion, and invent new meanings to words. It´s like we are talking totally different languages, the words sounds alike, but seem to mean something different, because everything they say is so twisted and distorted. It´s like they live in an alternative reality, separate from ours, but are able thouch our lives in an evil way. Like in a black magic mirror, where everything is upside down, twisted to the opposite, than in our world. Love is the same as hate, joy is to inflict pain to others, happiness is to destroy peoples lives.

The concept of 'forgiveness' is being used by narcissists to control and pressure the targets, and if forgiving doesn´thappen, the victims gets to hear they are 'bad' and can´t claim to be spiritual. I don´t suggest that forgiveness is a bad thing in itself, but it´s being used in a perverted way by narcissists. It´s a form of spiritual blackmailing, since forgivness many times is something that spiritual communities value high.

But how educated choises can a human being do, when she lacks knowledge about what´s being done to her? Is it stupidity to subject oneself to an abusive person? Or is it just lack of information? Or is it a whole society or even whole nations, that are blinded by the fact, that here are a lot of narcissists everywhere, and that they are evil? Not even psychologists and doctors knows how to spot a narcissist. They are so "talented" in deceiving us. We´re being showered with attitudes from everywhere, that overconfidence and 'self love' in massive amounts is the way to go. These attributes are so 'attractive' to us, or, we´re being hypnotized into believing that they are. Mainstream media use these traits, as to how we should be as human beings, they are the 'role models'. They are always so overly portrayed everywhere, as if these are 'greatness' and admirable traits. Most of us are buying in to this.

Abuse is never an isolated incident, it´s ingrained in our culture. But we, the targets, experience the abuse intensely in isolation, without knowing that this is going on everywhere. The abusors are portrayed as the "popular" ones. Why? Because there are so many abusors and narcissists out there, in USA there are 12 million sociopaths! Imagine how much damage they create every single day! And then let´s add all the narcissists and borderliners, that´s a lot of millions of narcissists and socipaths! They cluster up together and get stronger in groups. They live by their own rules, cross every boundarie they can. They choose their targets together, and they even abuse each other, and they like it. To accidentally find oneself in a situation with a group of abusors, narcissists and sociopaths, is really dangerous. And this includes families with one or several narcissists.                                                

As kids the narcissists are the ones that bully other kids, in particular the vulnerable ones, that don´t conform and participate in their abuse and bullying. They abuse their pets, and handle them harshly. They abuse their more sensitive siblings, and never conform to their parents rules, or just pretend that they do. Nor do they conform to their teachers rules at school.

The narcissistic kids inner landscapes and emotions are twisted to the right opposite, compared to kids who are able to experience genuine love. The narcissist kids love to inflict pain and destruction to other peoples lives. They are unable to ever apologize for wrongdoings to others, or if they do, there´s some manipulation behind the apology, and it´s delivered in a nasty way. 

They always are the desruptive ones at school, and destroy the environment to the other kids, so that it´s more difficult to concentrate and to learn. The yelling, intimidations and violations at the school environment stresses and traumatizes the more vulnerable kids. So many of them are so traumatized by the school environment, that they early on develop depression, anxiety and other problems. The narcissist kids 'love' the things, that the kids with capacity to love fear and feel disgusted about, and dont´t like.

The narcissist kids don´t like kindness, curiosity, compassion, generosity and care, they are perfectly well all together without these. They just want to take whatever they like, from whomever that comes in their way. They are entitled right from the start. If an adult who is capable of empathy, tries to reach out to a narcissistic kid, they are being rejected. They don´t seek nurture nor closeness from their parents or siblings. If they do, it´s always with some agenda in their sleeves. They don´t connect to their parents, or their environment at all. The narcissistic kids don´t share thoughts openly with others. Their goal is to take control over their environments, even as kids, by being disruptive, abusive, teasing and never take others into concideration. Why they are so disrupting at school for example, is because they get so much narcissistic supply, fuel,  from the attention. They don´t care if it´s positive or negative, it´s pure fuel! These kids think they are entitled to desrupt the environment for everybody else, because they really don´t care about other people.

To try to speak to a narcissist kid about emotions, is totally futile, it´s not gonna happen, because they don´t have emotions the same way as we have, so they can´t relate to our way of speaking of emotions, since theirs are biologically twisted to the opposite than our emotions, so that´s never gonna happen.

The narcissist kid love to steal, intimidate their school mates, to lie and deceive, and to cross every boundarie they possibly can. And nothing is gonna change this equation. And we´re not allowed to diagnose these evil kids, because they "might grow out of their conditions". But actually they never do, they just get smarter and more covert in their deceptions and abuse, they learn from other adult narcissists how to be more sneaky about their evil doings. And the irony is that their targets are the ones that get to be diagnosed, but not because they´re sick, but as a result of being abused and the anxiety and pain that the abuse creates. They are the ones that gets medicated. It´s like the narcissistic kids are protected by the society, noone gets to touch these kids, or question their evilness. "They´re just kids, and that´s how kids are"? No, that´s not true. Other kids are able to care and take others into concideration, but not the narcissistic kids. They are pure evil.

They are not kids with genuine intentions, they are the same as they are when they become adults. They practice evil doing their whole lives. This is what was given to them at birth, and that´s never gonna change. And the adult narcissists protect these narcissist kids, so that the abuse is totally impossible to stop at any school. The adult narcsissistic teachers even cluster up with the narcissist kids, and both enable and participate in the abuse to continue at school. And the narcissistic parents do the same at home, enables the abuse of the more sensitive siblings. Since the narcissistic teachers, parents, kids in every school cluster up, the vulnerable kids have no protection anywhere. This is the reason why so many vulnerable kids, who are targeted, commit suicide. And it´s twisted in the way, that these vulnerable kids were 'psychologically ill', in other words, it´s their own fault that they react and feel the pain and anxiety from being bullied.

They are targets at all areas of life, at home, at school, other kids, relatives, every aspect of life where there are narcissists. And the abusors protect each other. The word "bullying" is also a word, that is used to minimize the abuse, so that the vulnerable victim gets to be blamed for being bullyed. They often get to hear, "what did you do to provoke the other kids?!?" Even from the parents. So there´s no way for a target kid to protect themselves, or to get help anywhere. Not many adults listen to a vulnerable kid. Or the ones that perhaps do listen, are the ones who were victimized themselves as kids, and still are victims, who have a very little capacity to provide any protection or change in the school environment, since they suffer themselves.

As grown ups the narcissists either become criminals, or seek positions of power in society, where they can continue their abuse of vulnerable individuals, or targets. Sometimes even not so vulnerable individuals, but the vulnerable are the easy ones, and narcissists prefer not to make any greater effort if they don´t have to. If they are not able to get a prestigeous job, they choose the criminal path, or just to get a woman pregnant, and abuse her and the child behind closed doors. Or, if they are a woman, they do the same with a man and some kids. If they aren´t able to catch a woman and produce kids, they abuse coworkers at work, rape someone, troll the internet, steal, lie, and whatever they can come up with. There´s always some damage they can do wherever they are. To engage with a narcissist is like wrestling with a pig in a mud hole, and the pig likes it.

 "You are the creator of your own reality", when thrown in the face of a target, it´s abuse.

"You can´t change anyone but yourself" is another one, that I´ll expand on later.

"It takes two to tango" gives the abuser a great excuse to blame the target, when really being the abusing one.

"You´re all about drama" is the pointing at the reaction to the abuse, within the victim, and the blameshifting that narcissists are doing. The narcissist is the one who manipulate us to react dramatically by harassing us, and then blaming us for the response they expect us to have.

"You´re so insecure", is the shifting of focus to the effect of the abuse, instead of the abuser and the abuse itself, and then again blaming us for it.

"She´s so needy" is another way to twist a manipulation away from the narcissist, so that they can blame their victim for the reaction of being ignored on purpose by the narcissist.

It´s really hard for the target to try to "own" her "own" problems, because they don´t belong to her. The narcissist inflicts these problems onto her, makes them hers, but they are really his. And the targets succomb to the narcissists manipulations, and are the ones who go to therapy. The target seem to be the 'sick' one. They´re the ones with anxiety, and isn´t anxiety a sickness? So it must be them? The narcissists are feeling just fine, and they on purpose manufacture new problems and psychological and physical diseases for the victim, that were´nt there before. So, is it fair to say to a target, that she must own her own problems? No, I don´t think so. This is, again, the narcissist twisting things around to victimize the target. If someone is throwing acid at our faces, are we the ones that are responsible for the pain that the damage inflicts on our skin? It´s the same thing to claim that the victim has to "own their own problem".

The narcissist really is the source of our pain. We try to treat the effects of the narcissists abuse, but there´s no way of healing in this concept. We need to know that the narcissist IS THE problem, not us.

To have a narcissist in our lives is like sitting in the middle of a field of peace, and suddenly there´s an army of soldiers coming to attack us. And we sit there in the field, and wondering what´s wrong with us, it hurts so much when the bullets are piercing our skin. Why does our skin react in that way? Here´s only love? And there comes blood? Why are we bleeding? We don´t understand. Why does this happen to us? We continue to sit there, and pretend that there´s peace, but there will never be peace, ever. And we begin to second guess ourselves; maybe we deserved to have our skin pierced with bullets? Maybe we´re unworthy? We maybe seek therapy. Why are we so anxious? Why can´t we sleep? What did we do wrong? Maybe I have a low self esteem? Then there comes more bullets. Aoutch! More pain. We don´t realize that that´s what soldiers do, they shoot bullets into bodies. And we hear the soldiers praise the wonderfulness of bullets, and how great they are, and that it´s our own fault that we feel pain when they shoot at us, not theirs!!! They did nothing wrong! The soliders convince us that the bullets are healthy, and that we are to blame for them coming at us. It´s for our own good, they say. We made them shoot, they´re innocent! And by the way, they didn´t actually shoot at all, they just moved their arms a little, but there are holes in our skin. And the holes hurt. Or, after all, there were not even any guns, so you´re just imagining, you´re crazy, it IS your fault!! And we are confused. Wasn´t this supposed to be "love"? No, not to them. We were only pieces in their game, in their pretending. We didn´t know we were a part of a game, that we were set up for. But we were played, and they were the ones that set up the rules, it was their game board, and we had no clue.

When we look at the problem as isolated to our own personal experiences, we miss that this is a cultural attitude, and that narcissism in our society is growing hugely every day. Sensitivity, emotions, gutfeelings are something we´re not supposed to care about, we´re programmed into ignoring these from childhood. Or, if the narcissists are interested in emotions and spirituality, they pervert even these. In these cases, they specialize in manipulating the targets, so that they never are able to recognize abuse. A lot of so called spiritual communities speak of a concept, where there is no "I" or person, but "we are all one". So when there´s no "me", there´s no "I" who can be aware of being abused, while abuse is going on. This becomes a blind spot in a brainwashed mind.

When we are being accused of playing the role of victimhood, things are getting twisted around. Yes, the abusor often pretends to be a victim, often convinsingly. The narcissist pervert the concept of victimhood in a way, so that the target can´t allow themselves to see that they actually ARE being victimized. You´ve certainly heard :"She´s just playing the victim card!", which indicates that she in reality isn´t a victim. This twist also creates blind spots in society and in us, so that we´ll allow the abuse to continue, when we see it happening to other victims. I´m sure you´ve also heard this one: "she´s just looking for attention", as if not everyone look for that sometimes. We humans need human connections, we are social beings, and connection makes us feel good. It´s natural and healthy to connect. And by this one they reveal, that actually they are the ones that just are seeking attention, at someone elses expense, by pointing out that the victim doesn´t really deserve the attention that she desire, only the narcissist is the one that deserves that attention. They twist this around, so that we are supposed to believe that it´s something wrong with us, for desiring human connection. And for to be able to connect, we need to attend to each other, give each other our attention. Narcissists try to block this attention, so we won´t have access to neither our own attention, theirs or anyone elses attention. Their agenda is to isolate us.

The narcissists also manipulate us to cross our own boundaries, so we sometimes behave in ways that´s not in our character, and that is against our own values. This is what I see in the video with Rihanna and Eminem "I love the way you lie". This raises our inner tension, to loose the sense of control over our own behaviour. They want to corrupt our minds and behaviours, so that we´re not able to think for ourselves, and make our own decisions, based on our values. In other words, zombies or slaves that obey their commands.

When not seeing things for what they really are, it´s like trying to navigate with a map, that is empty. There are no directions, no clues as to where to go, or how to behave. We become confused and lost. We loose our dreams, ambitions, passions, goals, friends, families, our hobbies, jobs, our health, money, night sleep, and our inner engines doesn´t work as they used to...We become endlessly tired. We don´t even know who we are eventually. This is the end goal of the narcissist, and their success is completed.

All concepts are being perverted by the narcissists. We´re not allowed to admit to ourselves that we are being victimized. This is the crazymaking, the danger to our health. "Why do I feel so bad?". "I feel sick, but the doctor says there´s nothing wrong with me". We are not allowed to see reality as it is. This twisting around with words and our minds, takes away the tools for us all to understand reality, and our experiences. It´s so dangerous and confusing to a victim and to the whole society. This is the draining of our energy, our life force, the vampirism.

Have you ever concidered the societys fascination of the vampire movies? Or, have you seen the animated movie "Monsters Inc"? These monsters travel into childrens rooms by night, when the children are asleep. They jump out in the room and scare the children, and the monsters are energized by this interaction with the children and their fear. This is, again, a portrait of the narcissism in the society. The narcissists are the dangerous entities that are sucking our life force out of us, and we are like small children uninformed by this assault, scared and abused by them. We also have all the movies about Dracula, the blood sucking entity, that is so 'attractive' to women. What is so attractive about getting ones life force sucked out? Nothing at all, in my humble opinion.

We´re programmed into having blind spots. We´re not supposed to be aware of, that abuse is going on everywhere in the society. When someone mistreats us, we´re expected to look within ourselves, to see what´s wrong within US, even if there is nothing wrong.

Think of the new age movement and religions, they encourage us all to always look inwardly, never to point a finger at another person, however they might have mistreated us, and to find what´s wrong within ourselves. Just turn the other cheek, so they can hit it too!! It´s like the new age movement and religions are helping and supporting the narcissistic agenda. The narcissists never subject themselves to turn the other cheek for a second slap, not even the first one. They always make sure to be the ones that are at the delivering end of the slaps, and that the victims are always at the receiving end. They make sure, that a victim always stays a victim, and that the abusor stays an abusor. But we, the victims, we are so cooperative in our mindset, so we do this, blame ourselves as we are told to, we look within and do find faults, as we are expected to do, we really are 'good girls and boys', and we do turn the other cheek for the second slap. We want to be so good, so we stop thinking about the injustice in how this is set up for us.

The movements and religions suggests us to "own our own problems and issues" which is a bogus-trick, so we continue to ignore the abuse. We´re not being taught how to protect ourselves, we´re taught to be at the receiving end of abuse, right from the start. And the society is reinforcing this mind set, still today! We´re not taught to trust our own opinions, thoughts, desires and views, or how to spot an abuser. We didn´t have someone who protected us against abuse as children, noone really saw us and our suffering. We weren´t allowed to think for ourselves, since every time we tried to voice our thoughts, they´ve been silenced by a toxic environment, that harshly minimized and ridiculed the words that came out of our mouths.

Both our homes and schools has been a great "help" in this suppression. So how would we know, how to avoid the danger in these abusive relationships? So did we really choose these abusive relationships? I would say no, we were targeted from the start. There´s no way we could have known what we were set up for.

The New Age and self help/coaching movements are a lot to blame also here. We´re being told that "you can´t change anyone else, you can only change yourself", which is only a half truth. It´s true that you can´t change someone else, but the truth is also that we actually can´t change ourselves either. I know, it´s a chocking concept, but nonetheless it´s a fact.

Just concider this; The only thing we can do is to learn to accept ourselves as we already are. We come up with a set of genes, up to date conditionings. Then we have the life circumstances that we cannot control, shit happens. And our unconscious mind, which rules about 95% of our lives. So... we really can´t change who we are, but the abusor wants us to believe that we can! What a trick! They want us to do the chicken race 24/7, us to be the one who do all the analyzing, the self reflecting, the seeking, the therapy, all the meditation and the work, take all the responsibility for the whole relationship, to be the one who fixes the relationship and everything else, the one who tries to heal. All of it is a task that is doomed to be failed. So we come to feel like failures... While them themselves are leaning back in the couch enjoying the show!! We´re so wrapped up in looking for solutions, as to how to fix our lives, without realizing that that´s not in our power. We´re the ones that are expected to fix "our sickness" that they project on to us. And it really belongs to them.

This whole concept of having so much responisibility is draining our spirit. They want us to question ourselves and find the faults within US, so we won´t see what´s going on. Not to say that we can´t grow and be more aware of ourselves and our lives- but our true Self, our inner core, is what it is. It´s never gonna change. It is what´s given by the creator to us, when we were born and what we´re 'stuck' with for our entire lives. So why question it, and try to fight ourselves? We might as well go on and accept ourselves, as we are. To try to change ourselves, is to set us up to a task that is impossible to succeed in, and endless, and it will keep us occupied from living our lives. It becomes a pseudo life. We won´t succeed, since we already are who we are. And it´s impossible to try to become what we are not. It´s a deception.

This is another trick the narcissists play on us; we´re not supposed to see what they are, AND we´re also not supposed to see ourselves for who we truely are. They want us to see ourselves as flaud, imperfect, something that constantly needs to be worked on, and something that got stuck under the dogs paw. Worthless in other words. By this assault we get deeply motivated and committed in claiming our self worth, to prove to the narcissist that we actually are worth something, aren´t we? So, we become spiritual seekers. This is a part of our never ending chicken race with ourselves. Without knowing that we already are worthy from the beginning. Such a waste! They take away our self worth, so that we get to spend our time reclaiming what´s already ours! There are so many pseudo sciences that are created for the sole purpose, for people to try to "fix" themselves, to constantly try to change oneself to a "better me", which is never gonna happen. Healing comes only with accepting, and allowing oneself to be who we truely are, including all the difficult and painful emotions we experience, by getting all the abusors out of our lives. We must mentally throw back all the narcissistic projections at them, force them to be the owner of them, and realize that we aren´t that bad, as they try to make us.

TO LOOK WITHIN

The new age and coaching movements usually recommend us to "look within" (I´m not saying we should ignore our inner landscapes, please don´t misunderstand this). Maybe we want to see ourselves as spiritual beings, and narcissists even corrupt this concept of "looking within". They want us to look within, but not to our spiritual inner being, they want us to focus inwardly to our pain, and in massive amounts of time. They want us to obsess about the pain. And they want us to desire a "fix" for this pain. They want us to be overwhelmed with this task! And we´re truely so despereate to "fix" the problems and pains, and we need to believe that they are fixable, with the narcissist being there in the mix. We need to feel that there´s something we actually can do, and we´re not ready to accept that we feel powerlessness, hopelessness and depression, it´s too painful. We try to juggle with the equation, with the narcissist in the middle of everything, like the blue elephant in the room, that we´re not supposed to see. He´s there, and he´s desruptive, and we ignore the disruption. And it´s painful.

We are tricked into believing that only if WE fix OUR pain, OUR anxieties/insecurities, OUR depressions, then we won´t see that these are the EFFECTS of what is going on. It´s like a magic trick. They´re off the hook. We´re blinded by the effects, pain, that THEY are inflicting on us. But it´s not until we accept the powerlessness, helplessness, pain and depression as our inner guidance system, take them really seriously, listen to our emotions in every possible way, that we can come to terms with the truth and reality. It´s the situation with the abusor that is the whole reason for the hopelessness, powerlessness, pain and the depression. THEY wants us to believe, that we can do something about the situation, but the truth is, that they´re not gonna help in any way!! They blind side us, deceive us, lie, manipulate and it´s impossible to improve anything when an abusor is in our close vicinity. They love to watch our chicken race with ourselves! It´s their creation! And we have no clue. Pretty soon after we leave the abusor, and go no contact, and lick our wounds, we heal and get to feel better. The depression heals, the anxiety disappears, unless we again entangle our lives with another abusor, and unless we have other abusors in our lives. But we might have encountered fibromyalgia or other diseases due to the former abuse already.

The only thing we can do is to accept our experiences, cut our losses, lick our wounds and hope to heal. And to be aware every time we meet new people, that they might be an abusor, a narcissist. To raise awarness of the red flags, and go out in life and try out our wings again. To see if we can fly by ourselves, without a narcissist that drains us on our life forces.

This is the same concept for communities and nations. The awarness of these disruptive people needs to be raised. A big problem is that the narcissists are drawn into positions of power in our communities and nations. A narcissist won the US election. They are certainly not the ones who are gonna cooperate in sharing this information, they don´t want anyone to know.

Noone can protect themselves, if they don´t know what the danger is, not even the communities or nations. Their end goal is to corrupt, control, disrupt, destroy, destruct, deceive, steal, rob, threat, rape, violate, victimize, and to serve only themselves. They aren´t gonna help, in trying to improve anything in the society. They want to do their evil-doings in the shadows. The narcissists are going try to do the blameshifting again, and find reasons why all the problems are the victims fault. That the victims are the violent ones, the deceiving ones, the dangerous. Let´s not buy into this. The values that the mainstream media is standing for, are most of the time so twisted and distorted, that they are the sickness we´re facing. Who are the fear mongerers? Who speak with the loudest voices? Who are the ones that point their fingers at the official rooms? The danger is to be too impressed by loud speaking people, with huge selfconfidence, who are so sure of themselves, and that aren´t the slightest receptive or interested in ideas from empaths, or people that have the capacity to feel genuine love, compassion and empathy.

And, it´s not a conspiracy. It´just how the world works. The narcissist might be our son, our mother or husband, sister or granddad, or a friend, or coworker, a boss... Where there´s a narcissist, the rule is the survival of the fittest, there´s no compassion. No empathy for the weaker, the sick, disabled, foreigners, the starving, the single mom, the poor ones or abused people. There´s only exploitation, dehumanization, minimization, manipulation, scheming, deception, falsehood, violations and violence.

If they are good manipulators, noone in their environments knows that their enemies are the real victims, the targets of their abuse. Their environment learn about this, when they themselves become the target. And then they get to realize, that nothing ever was as they thought. That they have been deceived, and they didn´t see it coming.

The only suggestion I have, is to raise our awarness of the narcissistic abuse. We can´t eradicate them. They are here to stay, as are we. But we can learn about the red flags, and stop ignoring abuse, and learn how to protect ourselves. To get all the abusors out of our lives, and if that´s not possible, then reach out to communities that knows about this, and to seek support. To know that we are not alone, even if we are manipulated into feeling isolation.
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