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Trauma Recovery - The Guide to the Most Powerful Villains in Psychology

Hey, everyone. This is a safe place to share how you feel, but often times one has to get to the root of why they do. I will define the kind of toxicities that can hinder that, though, to gauge if there is some way I can suggest to help you overcome them.

Narcissists - ego-obsessed, cannot see past themselves, never open to new perspectives, trapped in their own mind, always prioritizing number one being their self over anyone, and learning to control people as their narcissistic supply. Just take away their power or give them too much. Reflect their energy, gray-rock, or black-rock (no contact). Do not stain their name without undeniable proof. Let them face their narcissistic rage then the collapse and mortification phases.

Psychopaths - so, these individuals already have the common traits involve little/no self-control, remorse, or empathy for what they do. They may be proud or emotionlessly apathetic about how they affect others. With a psychopath, you may notice them speak in past tense and be antisocial or all about me, me, me! They will flatter and then lie to you to death. Gender plays a huge role, but I would rather not be accused of being discriminatory when I am stating facts on that so find out on your own about it. They always save their own skin and lie pathologically every time. Beyond deception, they blame-shift, have zero morals, and lust for power. They are sadists who cure their boredom off your pain in thrill-seeking behavior. They do not care for rules or laws or consequences. as a child, you may see some symptoms of antisocial personality disorder in which they lie, hurt animals, start fights, and act very aggressive. The dating relationships are often short and exploitative, making more the enemies and betraying more trust than the average person you may meet. They easily lose interest and simply do not speak in terms of reality when they are out of touch. They take calculated, cold actions against their victims. If it all feels staged, go with your gut. they can orchestrate any circumstance to make you feel less of a person and dehumanize you. According to an article “This is how to deal with psychopaths and toxic people,” Barking Up The Wrong Tree (n.d.) specifies, “…nucleus accumbens section of their grey matter produced four times as much dopamine.” They feel a much bigger reward system. Accept they will never change except on their own, keep your distance, be more mindful of actions, not words, build your own good rapport, and always work towards your mutual benefit with them.
Sociopaths - very similar to psychopaths but more so influenced by the environment and less likely to involve themselves with violence or criminal activities. Sociopaths tend to have the three common traits of wetting the bed, abusing animals, or playing with fire, literally doing that. Well, they can form very weak anxious attachments, but do not typically differ as much from the regular psychopath.

Dark empaths -the most dangerous people on the planet that hide in plain sight where you rarely even suspect. They have a Dark Triad of narcissism psychopath and manipulation called Machiavellianism. It is them simply combining all these traits into one evil-a** monster and unfortunately, all my traumas made me that monster, but I am trying to become a super empath that helps people instead of hurts them when I feel threatened. I always do my best to spread positivity rather than extract negativity. If you maybe are a per se dark empath, it may be hard to unlearn it but eventually, you will not be that forever.

There is always a chance to improve if you felt like you had always been in self-defense mode your whole life. Each one of the unpredictable personalities is a broken soul, a tortured artist per se that does not know how to paint their story in the right colors and scheme. You just have to learn to paint your own canvas and write your own story. Take your power back and do not let these people affect you ever.

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Mental Health Reflection

How people can support me when I am stressed is by praying and listening to me. Then my relationship with productivity is really good because when I say that I am going to do something I automatically do it even if I have to rely on my caregivers for help or come up with a set routine. Isn’t that awesome?

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What has your health taught you about love?

Every year around Valentine’s Day, Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks reflects on what love really means to her. Having experienced a lot of rejection in the past, she’s often met with heartbreak, grief, and sadness around this time.

This year, though, she wants to reflect on how much effort she’s put into developing a better understanding of love—not only in the romantic sense, but as an energy and a practice. Her relationship with herself, as a person in recovery, hasn’t always been bright. But she has created more light by learning to love herself unconditionally, even through the darkest moments.

She’ll never give up on herself—and love has taught her that.

What about you? What has your health taught you about love?

#MightyMinute #CheckInWithMe #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Disability #RareDisease #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Autism #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #EatingDisorders #Depression #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie

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What’s your relationship with productivity?

I have a challenging relationship with productivity, as I have for most of my life. Although I’m more aware now and gentler and more compassionate with my expectations, it still feels like an uphill battle to truly understand that my worth isn’t tied to how much I produce. Cognitively, I know this—but my nervous system still relies on doing to feel adequate.

I often feel the need to show or prove to others that I’m worthy of time, attention, and affection. When I’m not doing well, I find myself unconsciously doing even more than usual, trying to bridge the disconnect I sometimes feel.

Can anyone relate? What’s your relationship with productivity? How does it impact you and your expectations of yourself?

📒 I’d love to hear your insights and experiences.

#BipolarDepression #BipolarDisorder #PTSD #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #Schizophrenia #ADHD #Parenting #ChronicIllness #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Anxiety #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #Depression #MentalHealth #Selfcare #EatingDisorders #CheckInWithMe #CheerMeOn

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How to Fully Destroy a Narcissistic Abuser #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder #dark /superempath

I was just diagnosed with autism and ADHD at the ages of four and seven respectively. I had a 504 in place, but no one ever treated me as though I mattered, and they were simply following the law. Most teachers and every single betrayed me in one way or some other. The worst was an ablest teacher in that high school who taught AP World History. I knew this was no different than anyone else, but she completely went overboard with me having to wipe my nose with her around, teaching me apparently outside the classroom. She did not understand my allergies. She infantilized me by sitting me apart from everyone else, and people would stare at me. I felt watched under constant microscope of smothering and suffocating surveillance and freebie answers I wanted instead to find on my own. Yay, 9th Grade was over and so was that textationship for 2-week love-bombing on my side to help a vulnerable/covert narcissist feel more confident in her self-image. I was uplifting, not controlling as she was real control freak. I was publicly humiliated, had my own stuff licked, my own privacy invaded twice (stolen number, using mutual friends’ numbers), and the worst of the worst, being betrayed by the last psycho boyfriend #6 and two women children filing restraining orders over burner accounts I used to get rid of them as in telling them to F*** off. First was a reassurance junkie like I always been especially she bullied, harassed, ostracized, abused, deceived, betrayed, and traumatized me after the first boyfriend incident two years ago. Second was an egregious crybaby, who cannot handle anything but a narcissistic supply of histrionic tendencies for attention in court. I do not say this to cause any scandalous defamation, but to defeat a narcissist, you have five ways to do so. You can black rock them where you really go AWOL and have no contact whatsoever. If the situation requires you to be present with them, be a gray rock. Look as unassuming and as boring as possible. One-wording, but not yessing everything they say, but giving a nod, shrug, or “K” that does not give them at all, if not very little ammunition. It drove the last call crazy before she flipped the scenario on me and reversed the entire story projecting her insecurities. She embellish the truth to the judge and made up lies. What we and the judge did was give in to her so she could just shut up. Then, he took out all her accusations on the worst kind of mutual restraining order in my life. Also you can give a narcissist way too much supply. Give them so much power that they have no idea what to do with that. Overwhelmed their ego to where it falls and breaks them into a narcissistic mortification or collapse. Additionally, mirror their actions. A narcissist may act like they love themselves, but they have no internal validation, which is why they rely on that narcissistic supply. if it is possible, the one thing they despise most is themselves, which is why they require others to understand them and feed into their nasty behaviors to enable them and justify just how they act when they know deep down it could be wrong. Help them base their own demons by showing them exactly how they treat you. Ostracize them from your life and cut them out like they did to you in the discard phase. Here, however, this is the most dangerous technique on dealing with a narcissist. Use it very sparingly and only a last resort. The big whole smear campaign and proxy wars. If you must, you can turn everything they have said against them and twist their words exactly as they do to yours to gaslight, victim-blame, or neglect your needs. Never allow them to be that close to you. Know at any second you can sue them right after you broke down their walls and infiltrated them so much they are in infatuated with you and they will not fight for themselves. Make them just love-bomb you so much that they do not care if you go to court and will not retaliate. That was the last strategy for how I deal with narcissists but I’ve never gone to court over them before. I do allow myself to black rock them most of the time and have them learn to embarrass themselves on their own because they are extremely good at humiliating who they are and destroying their identity when faced with new adversity in the highest form of a mess they created not me or you or anyone but themselves. Let them dig their own social grave. You can’t fix stupid, but you can let it break someone. Not that that’s nice, but if you need to step away and walk away forever for your life, that is your own prerogative and volition. If you feel you are in a abusive toxic relationship, do not hold back. Never let them devalue you and then worship you as if a goddess or God. They love to suck up to their authorities and create institutional pity. They can abuse their own power and influence to control you, but I never let them. They never knew behind the scenes. I was always the one controlling them to make them head to the extremes and destroy themselves so much that they will never come back from it. I never lost my power, but for those who have, take it back! Show they how strong we all are as one unified front on the Mighty! If anyone needs any pointers, I am always available to talk. I, too, am gifted at art as well. If you would like to be taught in any way or form I would do it completely cost free out of the kindness of my heart, you can ask me for that as well. I hope my blog gives you bliss. Below is a strategy on how to manage anger I learned from 988 and it has worked miracles in my life just like the WRAP (wellness, recovery, action plan). Make your own strategies and learn to help me help you through my insights. Take this from a dark empath that fights behind the scenes to try and protect those I care about, which is now everyone in this community who deserves to be treated with humanity and not cruelty. I hope my message finds you well! Enjoy!

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Lesson from my accident #4 . The misery of comparison #Depression #Anxiety #Healing #Relationships #FamilyAndFriends #MentalHealth

While I was doing inpatient rehabilitation I encountered some people who expressed frustration that I seemed to be recovering faster than they were.

I reminded them that their surgery was different to mine, we have different ages and every person’s journey is different.

I encouraged them to keep pressing on. And there were days when pain management seemed impossible and they would encourage me.

We tend to judge people on their actions and judge ourselves on our intentions.

Comparison leads to misery. We never really know what is going on in people’s lives. Facebook and Instagram tend to focus on the good times people experience so they are a bad gauge of reality.

You matter. You are loved. You are unique and that is absolutely marvellous!!!

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People Think I Just Moved Back. That’s Not What Happened. #PTSD #PostTraumaticStressDisorder

Content warning: kidnapping, sexual violence, drugs, cartel violence, suicidal ideation, trauma. No graphic detail.

I still have nightmares about Colombia and the Colombian cartel almost every night.
People think I just moved back, but that’s not what happened.

What happened lasted longer than people realize.

It started with about two weeks of heavy drug use by my boyfriend. That’s when I realized this wasn’t just partying — it was addiction. Then he met cartel members. Then plans started forming that I didn’t fully understand at first, but I knew were dangerous.

They figured out where we lived.

The first kidnapping didn’t just “happen.”
He was taken. He was beaten. He was sexually assaulted. He was forced to take drugs. He was robbed. He ran for his life and made it back.

We went to the police. They did nothing.

After all of that, he still refused to leave.

Two days later, I fled the country. I didn’t choose to leave — I had no choice. I fled for my life. If they had taken me, I wouldn’t have been held for ransom. I would have disappeared. That’s how they operate.

I had to leave my dog behind in Colombia, in boarding. She was still a puppy. I was gone for a month and a half before I could get her back. I need people to know this part, because it felt impossible — but I did get her out. That part still wrecks me.

One day after I left, they saw him outside our apartment. They picked him up again.
The second kidnapping.

I found out while I was on my way back to the United States.

There was a ransom. Sixteen thousand dollars. A number that doesn’t sound real until it is.

Drugs were still involved. Fear was constant. My body felt nauseatingly dizzy, dissociated, unreal — like I was watching something that couldn’t possibly be my life.

He told me he wanted to die.

I was in another country, on the phone, trying to keep him alive. The hardest part of that wasn’t exhaustion — it was the fear and the responsibility. Knowing that if I said the wrong thing, or didn’t say enough, I could lose him. I had to convince him to leave. To come back. To survive.

We stayed together for six more months after that.

People don’t understand that part. They think trauma has an ending. It didn’t. It followed us home. PTSD stacked onto BPD. Abandonment wounds blew open. My eating disorder came back as my body tried to regain control. My nervous system never stood down.

And then, after all of it, we broke up.

That part still feels like shock, betrayal, and emptiness all at once. I don’t know how you survive something that extreme together and still lose each other afterward.

I’m sharing this because I need somewhere this can exist. I need to talk about it. I need to hear how other people would feel about this. I need to know I’m not crazy for still having nightmares, for still waking up in a cold sweat, for still dreaming about the cartel every night.

This didn’t end when I left Colombia.
It didn’t end when we came back.
And it didn’t end when the relationship did.

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