Future Faking w/Thomas

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4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Our guest this week, Thomas, is from Denmark, and grew up alone with a covert narcissist mother who kept him socially isolated, emotionally abused him, and manipulated his sense of reality. For most of his life, he didn’t realize that anything was wrong, because of the covert nature of the emotional abuse, control, and gaslighting he was exposed to. A year ago he started to get a better grasp of his own reality and slowly began to understand what had really happened. Thomas is on the show hoping that his story can help others better recognize signs of covert abuse and control. Thomas explains to Rachel how, in retrospect he came to understand the emotional neglect and covert narcissism he experienced as a child. Rachel provides her insights on the manipulative parenting techniques of Thomas's mother and explains how they relate to those of cult leaders. Together, they unpack some of the most impactful moments in Thomas's childhood development and the emotional reverberations that followed. Before You Go: Rachel further examines the idea of future faking and breaks down how manipulators offer their victims a fraudulent promise or false hope in order to keep them distracted and under control. Check out Rachel's Youtube videos on narcissism here: https://youtu.be/KHdMYbkrQ-0 https://youtu.be/-OWudR86JjU https://youtu.be/jtrEVDdZ7kc Thanks to all of our amazing Patreon supporters! We couldn't do it without you! To help support the show monthly and sign up for cool Indoctrination shirts and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Want to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctriNATION You can help the show for free by leaving a review on Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:14.4	Hi, everybody. Today on the show, we have someone who is going to be talking about a very personal experience,
0:23.4	one where he was not in a cult per se, but was raised by somebody who is narcissistic
0:33.9	and can relate to people's stories of having been raised in a cult.
0:41.6	And sometimes people who have been in relationships with narcissists of any kind,
0:47.6	they will sometimes refer to it as a one-on-one cult.
0:52.6	And there is so much overlap. There is so much that people see in
0:58.5	similar manipulations and also similar after effects. This kind of sense that you don't matter
1:06.0	as much as the other person, that you are there to kind of serve their ego needs, and also that no
1:12.7	matter how they treat you, you have to be fine with it and just roll with it. So today on the show,
1:20.9	we're going to hear part one of my conversation with Thomas. Thomas is from Denmark. His English is exceptional. And he grew up
1:31.6	alone with a covert narcissistic mother who kept him socially isolated, emotionally abused him,
1:39.9	and manipulated his sense of reality. Most of his life, he didn't realize that anything was wrong
1:46.3	because of the covert nature of the emotional abuse and control and the amount of gaslighting
1:52.5	he was exposed to. A year ago, he started to get a better grasp of his own reality and slowly
2:00.0	began to understand what had really happened.
2:04.0	Thomas's purpose for contacting me and wanting to be on the show, which is wonderful,
2:09.0	was that he was hoping that his story could help others better recognize the signs of
2:15.6	covert abuse and control. Here's part one of my two-part
2:20.6	conversation with Thomas. I am very excited to have Thomas on the show today.
2:41.3	He is somebody who I actually invited to come and speak to you for some very significant reasons.
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