The Overwhelming Abuse Tactics & Feelings of Narcissistic Abuse - Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we discuss the 4 Overwhelm Types and the abuse tactics that narcissistic abusers use to overwhelm their victims. We expose how manipulators overwhelm victims to gain control, using strategies like love bombing, future faking, gaslighting, isolation, physical abuse, rage, moving goal posts, victim playing, putdowns, nitpicking, the fog, intimidation, the silent treatment, and financial abuse. We also talk with Jean (a former survivor story guest) as she bravely shares her story of overwhelm in her abusive relationship. To listen to Jean's survivor story, click here. 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 talk with a former survivor story guest, Gene,
0:07.6	about the overwhelming control tactics of narcissistic abuse and the overwhelming feelings they create. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick. And with me today,
0:41.1	we have Gene. How are you? Hi, Brandon. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed today. How are you?
0:48.5	I am doing well. I am not overwhelmed today, but that is the topic for today's episode. So thank you for mentioning
0:55.7	that. And before we get into our episode about the feeling of being overwhelmed,
1:04.1	overwhelm in general from the perspective of the abuser and the victim of domestic violence, narcissistic abuse.
1:13.3	If you want to be a guest on our Survivor Story episodes, please do go to our website at
1:17.8	Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form. When you
1:22.2	click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There, you can read all of our instructions
1:26.8	and either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form page. There, you can read all of our instructions, and either send us an email
1:28.5	at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit
1:32.9	button, and please do send it in the format that we ask for. So, Jean's participation in this
1:40.0	episode will come later when we will be discussing her feelings or when it comes to how she
1:46.9	experiences overwhelm within the relationship, within the narcissistic abuse relationship, and then also
1:54.0	in the post-separation version of that relationship as well and being a single parent too.
2:00.5	So when it comes to the feeling of overwhelm, you know, in the definition of trauma by
2:07.6	Judith Herman from trauma and recovery, the aftermath of violence, she writes that psychological
2:14.5	trauma is an affiliation of the powerless.
2:18.2	At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force.
2:22.9	When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters.
2:25.9	When the force is that of a human beings, we speak of atrocities.
2:31.5	So in there, she uses the words overwhelming force. And overwhelming force, I think,
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