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Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Callie & The Toxic Friendtor - Narcissist Abuse, Toxic Relationship

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.8 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Brandon talks with Callie about their toxic friendship with a victim playing narcissist in their PHD program. It’s a story of people pleasing, mirroring, ghosting, bread crumbing, and betrayal. Callie became friends with a mentor in their PHD program, only for the friend to forcefully take over her research project and destroy their dissertation. If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at [email protected] To take a free Enneagram Test, click here. Thank you to our sponsor BETTERHELP. If you need online counseling from anywhere in the world, please do go to https://www.betterhelp.com/nap Get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource.  Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with a survivor named Callie, and Callie was in a toxic

0:37.4

friendship with a victim playing narcissist in her Ph.D. program.

0:41.8

It's a story of people-pleasing, mirroring, ghosting, breadcrumming, and betrayal.

0:48.3

Music Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone with me today. I have Callie. How are you?

1:17.6

I am great. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. And I want to thank you for being here with us today. You're going to share your story.

1:28.5

This is a toxic friendship story, but it is also one that has to do with your school program.

1:33.7

It was your PhD program for you, and an ultimate betrayal happened there that you didn't see coming,

1:42.8

especially when you don't know that these things or these types

1:45.8

of people exist and they show you a facade of who they are, that you have no idea what's

1:51.9

hiding behind that facade. So I really want to thank you for being here with us today, Callie,

1:59.9

and now, without further ado, Callie, the floor is now yours.

2:08.7

Yeah.

2:10.0

So I grew up in the rural Midwest, had a very large extended family.

2:19.5

There were about eight of us.

2:21.3

I was the oldest child.

2:24.5

And so that, you know, especially in a large Midwestern family,

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