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Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Narcissist Abuse & The Psychology of Slot Machines - Q&A With Brandon Chadwick

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

Society & Culture, True Crime, Self-improvement, Relationships, Education

4.7 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Brandon discusses the psychology of slot machines from a narcissist abuse perspective. He breaks down how the psychology of slot machines uses love bombing, future faking, dangling carrots, cognitive dissonance, intermittent reinforcement, push-pull dynamics, and isolation, just like a narcissistic abuser would.  If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@gmail.com 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

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0:00.0

On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone.

0:35.8

I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we are going to talk about addiction, intermittent

0:43.6

reinforcement, a little bit of cognitive dissonance and their contribution to trauma bonds.

0:51.0

And we're also going to be discussing the psychology of the casino and slot machines as

0:56.4

well as a better way for you to understand all of this or just to kind of give you an analogy

1:03.3

of what you are dealing with. So before we begin, I just want to say if you want to be a guest

1:09.5

on our Survivor Story episodes, please

1:11.4

do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says

1:15.3

guest form. Click on that button and read all of our instructions and either send us an email

1:20.3

at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form. Press to submit button.

1:26.6

And also, we're doing an initiative where we want

1:29.8

survivors to send us their eBay shops, their Etsy shops, whatever shop you have, whatever

1:36.7

service you are providing for people. We want to create a portal for people to click on your

1:43.5

shops and to be able to go through and shop

1:46.5

from you or use your service.

1:48.3

We want to help people who are trying to get out of their situations that are trying to

1:51.8

squirrel away money or, you know, you're out of your situation.

1:54.6

You're just trying to live and put food on the table for you and your kids and put a roof

1:58.9

over your head.

1:59.3

So please email us with your with your

2:01.5

shops or your services and when we redo our website, we're going to have this new portal

2:05.5

page and we're going to really do a campaign to start getting people to shop from you. So

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