Richard Grannon

I'm for something red-blooded.

Let's just get on with it.

It's fine.

It's fine.

We're here.

Deal with it.

Well, the thing is with highly traumatic experiences is that they can leave an imprint in the central nervous system, in the emotions and in the mind that makes you feel like it's happening now when it's actually happened in the past, which is a sort of one way of describing what post-traumatic stress is.

So people who have been narcissistically abused can be left with a kind of PTSD.

And so they feel it ongoing even when all of the stimuli have left.

The abusive father is dead.

The abusive ex-wife is long gone.

But you still, your body and your brain is still repeating it.

So that's one of the effects.

The other one is a sense that because you were abused, you must have deserved it in some way.

So you start to rationalize and go, well, there must be something wrong with me.

I don't want to be abused again, well, then you better figure out what was wrong with you that caused this kind of abuse in the first place.

You must be evil.

You must be sinful.

You must be tainted in some way to have been the recipient of this abuse.

So these are some of the effects.