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Can narcissistic abuse cause brain damage??! · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  What is going on, beautiful people?
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  Today we're going to be answering the question, can
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  narcissistic abuse or being in a toxic relationship for a long
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  period of time actually 'cause you brain damage?
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  What if you're new here? My name is Lee Hammock, I'm a
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  self aware narcissist and welcome to another episode of
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  the Narcissist Code. Oh I'm back.
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  Y'all ever see those ads? Oh hey, I didn't see you there.
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  So I'll see my new studio sitting in the living room today
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  chilling. Let's do it.
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  Let me, let me change the studio up.
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  Let me change the Stew up and what not.
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  But yes y'all, we answering the question today.
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  Can being in a toxic narcissistic relationship?
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  Can prolonged exposure to narcissistic abuse cause brain
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  damage? It's crazy isn't it?
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  This. That's a crazy question to even
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  ask, isn't it? But before we hop into today's
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  episode, y'all make sure you check out my courses and my
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  support group right here. courses.mentalillness.net.
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  Check it out. Check out the courses, the
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  support group, all the above. See you there.
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  But yes, y'all, to answer the question, there are some have
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  actually been some studies that say narcissistic abuse, toxic
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  abuse, prolonged exposure to toxic relationship and
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  narcissistic people can actually cause brain damage.
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  Y'all imagine that right there, like being a relationship, an
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  abuse, an emotionally narcissistic abusive
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  relationship can lead to like literally can lower your quality
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  of life for an extended period of time.
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  So think about that right there. If you put that in there, put
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  that into perspective, sometimes it's like you sacrificing your
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  physical and mental health, your psychological health for a
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  relationship, for a person. You see what I'm saying to
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  prolong exposure to this can mess you up for yo, there's an
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  article on here. I'm going to link the article in
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  the comment sections and whatnot.
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  You can check out the comment section on YouTube, but it says
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  while the immediate. While the immediate effects of
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  narcissistic abuse can be debilitating, the long term
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  effects may be even more damaging.
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  Some individuals may experience persistent brain damage from
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  prolonged exposure to this type of abuse, resulting in chronic
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  physical and psychological symptoms that can last for years
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  or even a lifetime. So being in a so being in a long
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  term narcissistic abuse relationship, narcissistically
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  narcissistically abusive relationship can affect the
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  quality of your life. So yeah it's this article says
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  yes y'all. So y'all know it can like result
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  like gaslighting, being gaslight and manipulated for a long time.
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  It can mess with you, like it can really, really mess with you
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  psychologically. It can have you questioning your
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  reality way longer even after the relationship ends.
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  So even after the relationship ends, this type of like this
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  type of narcissistic abuse can have you question a reality even
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  after that. Like it is kind of crazy.
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  It is crazy to think that right there.
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  And it says some of the symptoms can result in low, low self
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  esteem and self worth. So we got, I think we are on my
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  channel. I discussed that a lot how being
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  in a toxic abusive relationship with a narcissistic person,
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  right can really take away yourself love.
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  You lose your identity. You think that you are worth
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  less than what you actually are due to the fact that you're in
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  this toxic narcissistic relationship.
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  That's a factual that's a factual statement right there.
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  Being in these toxic relationships makes you question
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  your worth, like you think you are worth less than what you
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  were before. You feel like nobody will love
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  you. Nobody.
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  You know they, this is what they can try to convince you of and
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  nobody will love you. Nobody's going to care about you
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  like I do. Nobody's going to put up with
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  your BS. Look how you act, look how you
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  behave. Like I'm the only person in this
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  world there to deal with that. And they convince you and they
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  try try to convince you of that, don't they?
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  They try to put that into your mind that nobody else is going
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  to be dealing with this other than them.
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  So yeah, it actually can question, make you question
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  yourself worth and how you have low self esteem even after you
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  get out of the relationship. This is like in in it while
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  you're in it, of course, but even after you get out of it,
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  you can still be questioning this type of stuff.
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  You can still be having these like questioning yourself worth
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  and yourself yourself love and things like that.
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  That's absolutely true. You can absolutely be
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  questioning that type of stuff even after you get out of the
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  relationship. So long, long after you're out
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  of relationship. There's people in my support
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  group right now that have been out the relationship for years
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  and be like this still pops into my head.
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  I still question myself sometimes.
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  I've been out of it for X amount of time, X amount of months, X
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  amount of years and I still think that I'm wrong when I know
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  I'm right. I still question my reality.
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  I still question my belief. I still question this.
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  I still question that. So even after you get out of it,
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  yes, this is true. Even in my support group, you
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  know what I mean? This is what people say right
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  here and it says another, another symptom is anxiety or
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  depression. So a lot of people going through
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  these types of relationships already with high anxiety,
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  right? You're anxious as hell and they
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  they they don't do anything to narcissist don't do anything to
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  help you alleviate your anxiety. They are not they're not going
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  to lessen your anxiety. If anything they add to it.
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  And depression. Absolutely yes.
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  Y'all these relationships can take you to a very dark place
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  and just because you leave it doesn't mean that the light
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  immediately shines on you. Like even in a thunderstorm
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  right? It might not be thundering and
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  lightning anymore, but it's still the dark clouds are still
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  going to be over sometimes right?
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  Even if it's not thundering and lightning directly above us, the
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  sun, it doesn't mean the sun is going to shine immediately after
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  the storm passes, right? So these, these can leave you
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  depressed. These can leave you super
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  anxious and not trusting anybody else.
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  These can leave you in a heightened state, like a
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  heightened state of just being a person.
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  It's horrible, y'all? It can be horrible.
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  And that's why sometimes people stay in these relationships
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  like, well, it hurts when I leave too.
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  The pain when you leave has the possibility of subsiding.
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  The pain when you stay in it, it's going to always be, it's
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  going to be prolonged exposure, like prolonged exposure to a
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  nuclear to a nuclear fallout is going to make you grow an extra
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  arm or an extra leg, you know what I mean?
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  So prolonged exposure can do damage to you as well.
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  You know what I mean? And the the next thing on this
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  site, it says post traumatic stress disorder.
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  So PTSDPTSD. I've also heard people
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  developing, see PTSD, complex post traumatic stress disorder
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  from these types of narcissistic relationships being in a hiding
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  state of fight or flight, which you almost always are in these
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  types of relationships with narcissists.
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  Because you don't know what version of the person you're
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  going to get. You don't know what's going to
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  set this narcissistic bastard off today.
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  You don't know what's going to trigger an explosion today.
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  You don't know what's going to set off with a month long
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  episode of the silent treatment of them ghosting you or
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  stonewalling. You don't know what the hell is
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  going going to happen. You don't.
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  It's 430 y'all. Guess what happens at 4:30?
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  They get home. They get, they get home at 5:15
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  every day. Guess what happens at 4:00?
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  You start getting anxious. Your heart starts beating
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  faster. 4:30 445-454-5055 o'clock The car pulls in the
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  driveway. The keys.
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  They, they, they shake the door knob.
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  They come into the house. You don't know what version of
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  them is going to come into the house.
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  Being in that heightened state of awareness and stress is going
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  to mess you up. It's just is.
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  Even when you get out of the relationship, these are things
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  you have to prepare for. This is not me.
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  I know it sounds like doom and gloom.
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  I know. Let me think about this guy.
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  I didn't think about this. I was talking earlier I know it
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  sounds like I'm preaching a lot of doom and gloom right now like
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  with them. Lee you made it sound like
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  leaving is is horrible too might as well stay in it.
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  Leaving is you have the ability to get better leaving you can
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  choose, you can fight. It might take a little while,
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  healing might take a little while, but the abuse is forever
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  when you are in the toxic relationship.
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  Now this is not me trying to just convince you to stay, you
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  might as well stay. No hell no.
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  Hey y'all Lee did a video and he told us to stay in.
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  No, the hell Lee didn't No I didn't no I didn't.
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  I did not say that. I did not say that at all.
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  You know what I mean? The next thing on this site it
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  says y'all is difficulty forming trusting relationships, which I
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  already I talk about all the time.
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  Like finding love after a toxic relationship is difficult
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  already in and of itself. That's one thing y'all, if you
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  don't know, in November, September the 14th, we have our
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  first in person workshop in Washington, DC.
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  We'll be discussing this right here.
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  Mental illness.net/events. Mental illness.net/events.
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  Back to the video. But yes, like it absolutely can
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  make you not not just intimate relationships.
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  This can make you not trust friends and family members.
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  This can make you not trust meeting people at the at the
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  club, but not the bartender or the, the, the, the person in the
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  checkout line, the bank teller, whoever it is working for you or
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  working there that is serving you in this moment in time.
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  You don't trust people's actions.
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  You don't trust people's intent because you've been
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  narcissistically abused for so long.
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  You don't trust people's actual intent.
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  It's hard to trust people when you've been in a toxic
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  narcissistic relationship dealing with this sore bastard
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  for such a long time. It is.
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  It's, it's hard to do that, y'all?
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  It's hard to do that, you know, it's hard to find it's it's
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  definitely possible. I got countless stories of
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  finding love again after narcissistic abuse.
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  There there's the possibility of finding love again.
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  It's absolutely possible. I have so many people who found
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  love again that I know leave. I got four kids.
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  I have people with four kids, five.
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  I don't know woman with seven kids.
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  She married somebody else now yo don't don't do not lessen your
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  own value. That's what the go back to the
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  first thing we talked about self worth, low self esteem.
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  OK, how many kids you got? Male or female, Whatever you,
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  whatever you identify as, whoever you are, you can find
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  love after this narcissistically abusive relationship.
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  You can start to trust again. It takes a little while, but
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  it's definitely possible. Don't give up.
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  There will be videos. Like.
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  I know it sounds like doom and gloom, but this is me trying to
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  give you hope. I'm your look.
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  I'm your Nate. Look.
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  I'm your hope dealer. Today I'm dealing hope.
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  I got it in my pocket. Look, I can't look.
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  I can't show it to you. I can't show it to you.
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  Might get arrested. I'm dealing hope.
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  Today I got hope in my pocket. Yeah, I got, I got.
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  Hey, I got this stuff, this stuff, this stuff you're looking
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  for and the last thing over here y'all is it says feelings of
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  shame and guilt. Yes, you could absolutely feel a
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  lot of shame after you get out of narcissistically abusive
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  relationship. Of course you feel ashamed
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  during it, but you can feel shame and guilt when you get out
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  of it because a lot of people have shame and guilt and your
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  associate when you're trying to leave.
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  Because sometimes when you have kids, you feel bad as hell for
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  keeping your kids in this abusive situation when you might
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  have could have left earlier. You'd be like, damn, I feel bad
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  and my kids had to endure 10 years of this.
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  I feeling bad. My kids had to do it. 1617,
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  eighteen years of this. I feel bad that my kids, you
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  know, they grew up in this household and they didn't they
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  didn't escape it until they left and I'm still in it.
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  So I understand that right there, y'all, the shame and
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  guilt is hard as hell to deal with, but you can deal with it.
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  But you can fight through it, but you can battle it.
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  I had people that I've coached that have been getting divorced
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  after 43 years of a toxic relationship, rebuilding
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  relationships with their children, get rebuilding
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  relationship with their grandkids.
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  Love hearing those stories lately.
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  I got to help my grandbaby today.
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  Me and my son, we we were working.
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  We were talking after I left my husband, he's still angry.
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  But I got to get to hang with my grandbaby today.
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  I feel so good. Yeah.
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  I don't understand how much that touched my little narcissistic
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  heart. It did.
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  I love it. I love it.
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  I love it. I love it.
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  She's in my support group, too. I love.
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  I love hearing those stories. Really.
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  I got to talk. I got to help my grandbaby
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  today. Me and my son, we went.
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  We went through it since I've got divorced.
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  But I got to do with the grandbaby.
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  Yay. Yeah.
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  I love it. You can win.
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  This is not me trying to preach doom and gloom.
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  This is me showing you the sacrifices that a lot of people
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  make when you're in these relationships.
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  You're saying, you see what I'm saying?
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  These relationships right here, they can call like they you are
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  making a sacrifice, being in it. How much are you willing to
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  sacrifice? Sacrifice for love or the
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  possibility of love, The possibility that 1% or less
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  chance that this person is going to change.
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  You see what I'm saying this thing, it didn't definitely mess
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  with your memory. You got memory fault, memory
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  loss from dealing with narcissistic people.
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  This bastard that convinced you so much is untrue that you
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  forget things. You see what I'm saying?
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  You forget stuff. It does do that do this type of
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  stuff to you. I saw one issue.
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  I saw one article it said you can cause cause chronic illness,
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  yo chronic illness. It can make you have impaired
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  judgement, memory loss, headaches, trouble concentrating
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  and staying focused on tasks, emotional instability, including
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  mood swings. It can make you pick up you like
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  yo, you can pick up narcissistic fleas.
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  You can start behaving narcissistically from being in a
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  narcissistic abuse relationship. That's not on here, but that's
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  one thing that can happen. Prolonged exposure to
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  narcissistic abuse and narcissistic manipulation can
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  make you behave in a narcissistic way to defend
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  yourself. It's like in the self-defense
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  mechanism. It absolutely can.
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  So prolonged exposure can make you start to think that you are
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  the narcissist. It's crazy.
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  It's crazy again. Yeah, I'm gonna link this
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  article so y'all can read through it.
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  It's an amazing article, but you can Google it.
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  You can Google this type of stuff as well, y'all, Because
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  healing takes time getting around people that are that are
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  going through similar circumstances, you know, doing
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  coaching sessions and you can do a coaching session with me at
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  mentalillness.net or with anybody else.
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  Y'all you don't have. I want y'all to get better.
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  You don't have to be with me. I want y'all to win.
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  That's the crazy thing about it is I know, I know Y'all hear
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  that all the time when somebody when a narcissist is breaking up
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  with you. I don't want, I want you to be
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  happy even if it's not with me. I mean it.
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  They don't mean it. They want you to say they want
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  you to say no leave, we'll leave.
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  We'll we only want to use you. No, I want y'll to win.
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  I want y'all to hear me recommend somebody and then
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  y'all and that person. I recommend it help help save
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  your life. Lee, I you know, I listen to
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  videos. I heard you mention Leon Walker.
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  I wanted to check out Leon Walker.
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  He, his story resonated with me because he was in the Army.
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  He was a Marine. I don't know.
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  He's a Marine. He's in the Army.
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  You know, I heard you talking about raw motivations and his
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  journey and journey, Christian faith or whatever helped me out.
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  You know, I heard you talking about these people.
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  You may I heard you talking about strong.
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  You know, Lisa's son is stronger than before.
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  Carrie McAvoy roller coaster love Jules, you know, Katherine
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  Klaus, all my all my peoples in my group and whatnot.
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  NIA Renee how to love about a woman and her store dealing with
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  chronic illness, you know, walking in New York Fashion St.
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  Fashion Week this week. You know, I think this soon New
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  York Fashion Week that's amazing.
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  All those brain surgery that's amazing.
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  Get help. I want y'all to win.
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  I really want you to win. This is not me just trying to
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  sell you sell, you know shit. I want you to win.
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  I want you to achieve victory and you may you, you can, you
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  might, you got to take me along the way.
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  You can just nod. He was like that guy, help me.
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  You gotta tell me. You gotta tell me you mean.
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  But anyways, y'all, I appreciate every single one of y'all.
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  I'm extremely thankful for you. Y'all like say me helping y'all.
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