Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day June 1st Why Today Matters to You!!!!
Today we honor all the survivors of a form of abuse that sometimes goes unnoticed in families and relationships, Narcissistic Abuse. This is a painful process because at times the abuse is undetected to outsiders and survivors talk about the fear, shame, and guilt they carry when they finally share what has happened to them. Here are some warning signs that you may be in a Narcissistic Abusive relationship.
1. Do you feel that the relationship you are in feels like a ticking time bomb? You feel like you must walk on eggshells around your partner or spouse? Do they react to conflict with rage, or extreme reactions when you express your thoughts, feelings, or perspectives?
2. You find this person to have a history of cheating, infidelity, manipulative behaviors, or constant patterns of lying?
3. When you confront the person on their wrong doings or behaviors, they blow up at you in a rage?
4. The person you are with has almost a double life to them, for small periods of time they can be gentle, sensual, and loving, but then there are periods of time when they are cruel, dismissive, demeaning to you?
5. If you took a mental inventory of how your life was before you met this person would you say that it healthier and more stable than it is now with this person?
6. The person you are with have extreme behaviors that have negatively impacted your emotional, physical, and mental health?
7. The person you are with is very hypocritical, they highlight your mistakes, your flaws, your insecurities.?
8. The person you are with has a sense of high importance, grandiosity, focuses on their reputation, hyper focused on physical appearances?
9. The person you engage with continues to engage in the same hurtful behaviors you have asked them not to do anymore.
10. The person is physically, mentally, verbally, spiritually, financially abusive?
Narcissistic Abuse is not easy to navigate, it is important that if you found you answered yes to a lot of these questions to start to think about reaching out to a licensed mental health professional or a certified life coach that specializes in this. There are a lot more essential assessments and obtaining a full picture of what is happening for you or a loved one.
June 1st is National Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day
What can you do?
Information is a roadmap to your recovery. Take a breath and just start to simply research and reading material on Narcissistic Abuse.
Follow organizations that are offering support. This is a wonderful summit that is hosting multiple mental health professionals today on speaking on the intricacies and complexities of Narcissistic Abuse, Narcissism, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Listen to a podcast or watch a YouTube video. Sometimes reading information may be overwhelming, if you are struggling to decipher if you are experiencing Narcissistic Abuse, set aside an hour in your day to listen to a podcast from a professional that can go into more detail about this. Here are a couple I would suggest:
http://doctor-ramani.com/podcasts-feat-dr-ramani/
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Take your time on your research, set realistic expectations on yourself, read and research what gravitates to you and how you want to work on recovery and healing. Continue to reach out to your support network and friends. Keep a small journal of questions, feeling, thoughts or behaviors you are experiencing in the relationship. Take inventory of your strengths and know that there are qualified mental health professionals that understand this.
Today we hold space for you and other survivors that are going through chaos, uncertainty, shame and guilt. We are here! We see you; we are here you. Your pain matters. It is never too late, it’s never too late.
Please reach out to us if you have any more questions!
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