Narcissistic Abuse: Gaslighting and Psychological Manipulation
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Narcissistic abuse is a form of psychological manipulation that relies on dominance, power, and control, and is enforced most often through various forms of mental abuse. Gaslighting is a tool that narcissists rely on to cause their victims to consistently doubt the validity of their thoughts. Whether a narcissist is aware of their mind games is not as important as recognizing these forms of abuse. Once you recognize gaslighting, projection, and various forms of invalidation, you can far more guard yourself against the trauma bonds these relationships create.
In a trauma bonded relationship, your cognitive ability to trust your thoughts, emotions, needs, ideas, opinions, and perceptions will become hindered due to being manipulated to believe that questioning a narcissist is a form of disloyalty. Your very thoughts and emotions will work against you, that is until you gain the invaluable insights you need to arm yourself against narcissistic abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness |
| 0:24.9 | rather than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope |
| 0:32.8 | as you spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | When you are being emotionally invalidated by a narcissist, what you will notice over time. |
| 0:44.8 | You might not notice when you're right in the middle of it, especially if you're struggling |
| 0:48.5 | with a trauma bond and the narcissist has done a really good job at pulling you in through |
| 0:53.4 | love bombing you, |
| 0:54.6 | idealizing you, making you feel good about you. |
| 0:57.6 | You get activated or this level of narcissism in yourself gets activated. |
| 1:02.1 | And it's a natural thing that happens. |
| 1:04.1 | You start to feel like, oh, there I am. |
| 1:06.6 | It's like you don't know who you are until you look into a mirror or you don't know |
| 1:10.8 | what you look like until you look into a mirror. |
| 1:13.2 | And so when someone is reflecting back to you, the qualities that you hold, that are wonderful |
| 1:18.6 | qualities. |
| 1:19.8 | And when someone says, I see these qualities in you, it's a magical experience. |
| 1:24.3 | It helps you feel seen. |
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