The Slow Erosion: How Gaslighting Turns Into Self-Gaslighting

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we explore how gaslighting turns inward, becoming self-gaslighting that dismantles confidence, identity, and self-trust. Gaslighting doesn’t just distort reality — it slowly erodes who you believe you are.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and this episode is part of a four-part
0:13.9	little series that we're going to do. And the series is on gaslighting to self-gaslighting, the shift of when and how that happens.
0:26.9	In this specific episode, we're going to be discussing what gaslighting actually does, what is self-gaslighting, how it slowly erodes who you are, where it begins in relationships, and finding your
0:40.6	way back. And we may hammer home some points a lot during this episode. Some things might feel
0:47.2	a bit too much, but we're just trying to hammer home these points so you really understand
0:51.5	the concepts of what's kind of going on in your current relationship or what you dealt with in the past.
0:58.2	But before we get to any of that, we have a new newsletter.
1:05.0	And people really like our newsletter.
1:07.2	More people are joining our newsletter, which is nice.
1:09.7	And our newsletter focuses on five things
1:13.2	from our Survivor Story episodes. Either there were reflections. They can be resources. They can be
1:19.5	things that you noticed in the episode that might be going on in your life. And then an extra six thing
1:25.8	in the episode is a free workbook that we're
1:28.1	giving away that has to do with our weekly Survivor Story episode as well. And people really
1:35.2	find it useful. And you can go to our website and sign up for our newsletter. And hopefully it will
1:40.2	help you validate your experience and help you in the healing process as well and maybe help
1:45.4	you, you know, jumpstart moving out of the relationship, creating inertia for that to happen
1:51.4	and to do it safely. So with all that being said, let's, I guess, start off into this episode.
1:59.9	So if you're listening to this episode, you know, there's a good chance there's moments in your life where you thought, maybe I'm the problem, maybe I'm remembering it wrong, maybe I'm just not good at relationships, or maybe I just not good at parenting, Maybe I'm just not good at life.
2:18.4	Maybe I'm a bad person.
2:20.6	Maybe I don't deserve better.
2:22.9	And then there are some cases where you might think to yourself, well, if I didn't do this,
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