“Their manipulation is psychological and emotionally devastating and very dangerous, especially considering the brain circuitry for emotional and physical pain are one and the same (Kross, 2011). W...”

“To any survivor who may be doubting whether what theyve experienced is truly abuse, remember that emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse will never be, and should never be, considered part of t...”

“(a quote from a survivor)Information was key. Once you begin waking up to what has been happening around you the whole time you can begin stopping the cycle which angers the Narcissist to an intere...”

“A child thats being abused by its parents doesnt stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.”

“The fact of the matter is, if you havent been in an abusive relationship, you dont really know what the experience is like. Furthermore, its quite hard to predict what you would do in the same situ...”

“Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different aspects of the trauma get stored in differ...”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of th...”

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make...”

“I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You dont allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You dont put ...”

“These are often the children of overbearing narcissistic parents who cannot tolerate the teenagers growing need for separateness and threaten the child with psychological or actual abandonment as a...”