Brain Damage From Narcissistic Abuse

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

Narcissisticabuse, Health & Fitness, Narcissist, Self-improvement, Education, Recovery, Mental Health, Trauma

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we will talk about the damage that narcissistic abuse provokes to our brains. Although what happens to us in abusive relationships is considered brain damage, I'll add a caveat right away and clarify that this damage can be reversed. In fact, you can start living even better than before. We will begin by understanding what happens in our minds when we are abused, what parts of the brain are triggered by the abuse, and how we can recover from it.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

- What kind of brain damage narcissistic abuse produces

- What happens when our mind goes from "online" to "offline" mode

- How the hippocampus and the amygdala affect how we feel and how we react to abuse

- What we can do to reverse the damage produced by narcissistic abuse

The traumatic experiences we go through in our childhood leave marks, or self-worthiness wounds as we call them. Those wounds are the reference our brain has to do its primary job of keeping us alive. Our brain will always pick what it considers the less painful option, even if that means staying in an abusive relationship. Understanding this is crucial to see that our system is trying to protect us, and for us to become curious why it considers abuse less dangerous than other options.

Resources:

- Join my Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Programme™ https://go.carolinestrawson.com/heal-the-trauma-of-narcissistic-abuse

- Join my Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse

- Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/

- My website: https://www.carolinestrawson.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the narcissistic trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Strawson and I'll be sharing with you
0:09.5	awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.
0:16.4	I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are and I believe you.
0:21.3	And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.
0:30.2	So the other day, I did a reel on Instagram.
0:33.1	And if you're not following me on Instagram, please come over because I share lots of insights and regularly
0:38.4	posts and little reels and videos, again, just to inspire and educate you to lift the guilt and
0:43.8	shame that you may be feeling. And one of the ones that I did that seemed to go crazy was talking
0:49.6	about brain damage and narcissistic abuse. Now, when I say brain damage, I just want to add a caveat
0:55.6	really early on here so that you're not going to listen to this thinking, oh my God, I've got
1:00.6	brain damage and that's it, okay? The damage that is caused to the brain because of abuse can be
1:06.4	reversed. So I just want to add that in right from the get go, okay? Don't do what what my dad does, where he'll start going, oh, it's, I remember actually just kind of diversifying here.
1:16.4	Because, you know, we're like family, aren't we?
1:18.6	I remember when my dad called me, this was years ago, when my mom was poorly in hospital,
1:24.3	and he called me and he left a voice message and he was like hi it's your dad here
1:27.8	it's about your mom well what happened was she had a real big pain in her heart and for about a minute
1:33.9	and i'm there thinking oh my god is my mom alive is she dead and everything else as well and the panic
1:40.0	so i would alleviate all that for you right now and know that what What I'm about to share is what happens, but everything can be reversed here for you as well. And in fact, when I say reversed, you can go on and lead an even better life because of what you have been through as well. But I understand there's many things that come up for us when we're in that abusive relationship.
2:01.0	And this can come from childhood to adulthood to being with a narcissist to even other forms of
2:05.4	abuse as well from childhood.
2:07.2	So what exactly does happen within our brain?
2:09.7	Well, the first thing I want to say is, I want you to know that your brain, your mind,
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