I am deeply passionate about raising awareness on coercive control and saving those who are currently in it. So, after I concluded my YouTube series deep diving each stage and also the science behind it, I knew I needed at least one survivor’s story. Because nothing brings us a deeper understanding of what it’s like …
7 Years in Coercive Control: Interview with Advocate, Lady Storm Read More »
Today I want to drop a little bonus content based on my own lived and learned experience with coercive control. It’s an example of the material we have been covering so far. Stage 1: love bombing and stage 2: intermittent reinforcement with gaslighting and isolation and enmeshment. I am a firm believer that academic understanding …
He was Narcissus Incarnate: How I Survived My Abusive Ex Read More »
We are back in this ongoing series on the cluster B continuum and today it is antisocial personality disorder’s turn to be in the hot seat. So, first things first. What’s in a name? Well when it comes to antisocial personality disorder, it has the most misleading label of all. Because when we think of …
Antisocial Personality Disorder: The 8 Criteria Read More »
We are back with our third and final installment on borderline personality disorder. Two weeks ago we introduced the 9 criteria for borderline personality disorder (here) and cleared up any and all confusion on what the criteria means by giving examples for each. Then because the rarest personality disorder is the one who only has …
The Comorbid Borderline Part 2: Cluster B + B Read More »
We are back with part two on histrionic personality disorder (HPD). In part one, we went through the 8 criteria for histrionic personality disorder and examples of what each means. (Here) Then I received not one, but two comments on YouTube, and this really opened my eyes. Check this out – because I got their …
HPD Part 2: The Comorbid Histrionic (Appeasing vs. Disingenuous) Read More »
We are continuing our series on the different cluster B personality disorders. Last week we covered narcissistic personality disorder (here) in not one, but two articles. This week we are covering histrionic personality disorder. So, we’re going from the most famous of the cluster Bs to the one we don’t hear much about. At first …
Histrionic Personality Disorder: The 8 Criteria Read More »
Today I want to talk to you about the Cluster B personality disorders: Narcissistic, Histrionic, Borderline, and Anti-Social. There’s one more you might not have heard of because it was removed at the publication of DSM 5. It’s Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder. Just because it was removed doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. My argument is that …
The 10 Traits All Cluster B Disorders Have Read More »
Trauma attraction is having an attraction to those who make us feel in some way similar to how we felt when we were raised in an adverse home. It’s a failure to see the value in peace. That’s because when we’re raised in chaos, we learn how to cope in chaos. Dissociating was our only …
Trauma Attraction and the Chaotic Nervous System Read More »
Empathy makes us people. Empathy is the glue that holds family, friends, towns, and even nations together. It is how we navigate, how we judge right from wrong. Empathy is the core of goodness and its absence is the root cause of evil. Without empathy the link to the common human consciousness is severed – …
Empathy Has Been Hijacked and Cluster-Redefined Read More »
Leaving an abuser can be dangerous. Divorcing one tends to be exhausting. That’s because the abuser becomes the most unstable when the victim – who they view as their property – breaks free from their control. That’s why we often see divorces from these high-conflict people drag on for years. Taylor’s story is no exception. …
Exposing the Messages My Abuser Left Me: A Survivor Shares Read More »
