How Narcissistic Abuse & Trauma Contribute To Imposter Syndrome - Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Get ready to decode the intricate labyrinth of imposter syndrome and its profound ties to trauma and abuse. We promise you an enlightening journey where we dissect the essence of imposter syndrome, its symptoms, and its lasting effect on victims of abuse. We delve into the sinister tactics an abuser employs to manipulate a victim's identity to their advantage, leaving an indelible scar on a survivor's self-perception and relationships. We also examine the damaging effects of emotional abuse, with a special focus on narcissistic abuse. Discover how these destructive patterns can seed self-doubt, erode one's self-worth, and lead survivors to question their intuition, even years after the abuse has ended. The societal tendency to downplay abuse is also put under the spotlight. We conclude the episode with some resources for those seeking additional support, to aid you on your path to recovery and self-validation. Join us, and gain a profound understanding of imposter syndrome and its correlation to abuse and trauma. If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@gmail.com To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. Thank you to our sponsor FACTOR. To get delicious fresh healthy meals delivered to your door and ready in 2 minutes, go to Factor at https://www.factormeals.com/nap50 and use promo code NAP50 to get 50% off. 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. If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.). To reach them, click here. 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

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we discuss how trauma and abuse contribute to imposter syndrome.
0:09.0	Music Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we are going to be talking about imposter syndrome, trauma, and
0:39.6	abuse. But before we get to that, if you want to be a guest on our Survivor Story episodes,
0:45.7	please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says
0:50.9	guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There, you can read all of our instructions and either send us an email at
0:57.7	Narcissistapocalypse.g.com or fill out our guest form and press this a bit button. And please do
1:03.0	send it in the format that we ask for. And today, we are going to be talking about imposter syndrome.
1:10.8	But before we get to the full-blown
1:12.8	imposter syndrome when it relates to abuse and trauma, let's go over imposter syndrome from its
1:19.8	original beginnings and we'll bring in abuse-related things as we go on before we get to the
1:25.8	full section related to trauma and abuse.
1:30.4	So imposter syndrome, the name was coined by two clinical psychologists named Pauline
1:35.6	Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes, and they first identified and named this back in 1978.
1:43.0	And imposter syndrome is the condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing
1:48.0	success internally, despite being high performing in external objective ways. This condition
1:55.5	often results in people feeling like they are a fraud or a phony and that they will be
2:00.6	doubting their abilities.
2:03.6	And with imposter syndrome, a person doesn't feel confident or competent regardless of what
2:09.2	they achieve. They don't experience the joy of success because they're always waiting for
2:13.7	their inadequacy to come to light, that they'll be seen as a fraud, that they are a fraud.
2:20.0	So you can see right there, if we want to dip our toes into abuse or psychology jargon, this is
2:28.6	cognitive dissonance. And you have two mixed messages here. And an abuse, whether a parent or romantic relationship
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