Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you

awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.

I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you.

And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.

So I must get messaged so many times about the fact that people just can't break that trauma bond, that addiction to the

narcissist. And they know that it isn't the right thing to be doing, to keep wanting to maybe

stay or go back, that they keep on messaging or emailing or texting the narcissist in their

life. And they know that they shouldn't be doing that.

And they feel even worse as they're doing that.

But there is something making them keep doing that.

And we actually call this a trauma bond.

Now, you may have heard of something called the Stockholm Syndrome.

Now, the Stockholm Syndrome was founded when it was really those hostages that were taken

in various events that suddenly became akin and felt like they started to affiliate with the

actual hostage takers. They started to see maybe the reason why they were keeping you as hostage

because they could see a

bigger picture. And that's what we would call the Stockholm Syndrome. And really, it's a very

similar scenario with a narcissist, but we tend to call it trauma bonding. Now, we know narcissistic

abuse is trauma. And the majority of the clients that I see will all be suffering

with something called complex post-traumatic stress disorder. So you've probably heard of PTSD,

and I've done other podcasts on this, other episodes. And complex PTSD is really that

information processing disorder that has got really, really stuck, but it's things that

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