Why Talk Therapy Alone Can't Heal Narcissistic Abuse

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

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

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

While talking therapy does have a place in the recovery process, in this episode I'm going to explain to you exactly why talk therapy alone can't heal narcissistic abuse.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

Complex PTSD and why it so difficult to heal
The benefits and limits of talk therapy like CBT and DBT
Why you need a therapist who has been through the trauma of narcissistic abuse
Why talk therapy can access only 10% of your brain and what to do with the rest
How talk therapy can sometimes actually make you feel worse
How EMDR and Brainspotting therapies work

Wherever you are on your healing journey, please make sure that you are getting the right treatment for you. Look for a therapist who has been through what you have been through, and who is using brain-body based somatic psychotherapies, so they can help you shift in the part of the brain where the trauma is stuck, because if you don't do that, you could be in talk therapy for years.

Resources:

Episode 003 What is Complex PTSD https://www.carolinestrawson.com/003-what-is-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/
Join my Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you
0:09.2	awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.
0:16.8	I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you.
0:21.4	And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.
0:30.0	So this is an interesting topic and one that I get lots and lots of messages about.
0:35.8	Why isn't this talk therapy that I'm having,
0:39.3	healing me of my narcissistic abuse? I've been going to counseling for the last year and I feel
0:44.6	no further forward. I get lots of messages. I've even had clients who are psychologists and
0:51.0	psychiatrists and talking therapy does have a place. But I'm going to explain to you
0:56.0	exactly why in this podcast, talk therapy can't heal narcissistic abuse. So those people who have been
1:03.4	sufferers of narcissistic abuse, the majority of those will have something called complex post-traumatic
1:09.4	stress disorder. Now, I'm not here to
1:11.8	diagnose anybody, and I'll talk about complex PTSD in other podcasts, but complex PTSD, post-traumatic
1:19.3	stress disorder is really a complex issue. And PTSD is really an information processing disorder.
1:27.3	So what complex PTSD is really an information processing disorder. So what complex PTSD is really a information
1:31.3	processing disorder that has happened over a longer period of time. PTSD tends to be for a single
1:37.2	event. That's why most people who have been in an abusive relationship for a period of time,
1:43.2	whether that be a child or an adult, they will
1:46.1	exhibit all the signs and symptoms of complex PTSD. I know certainly for me, I was diagnosed with
1:51.9	initially PTSD by my therapist, but a lot of therapists, they do overlap PTSD and include
1:59.5	complex PTSD. And actually, it's only just recently that the complex
2:03.6	PTSD has been actually put in the DSM, which is the diagnostical and statistical manual that the
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