Narcissistic Abuse Recovery With Angie Atkinson

Understanding & Overcoming Dissociation and CPTSD After Narcissistic Abuse: Compilation If you are dealing with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder, chances are that you're experiencing some kind of emotional numbness and personal disconnection from the world. What you might not know is that it's called, dissociation which is “the disconnection or lack of connection between things usually associated with each other,” and that in its most severe forms, those who suffer from it report that the “disconnection occurs in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception.” So, for example, a person who suffers from dissociation may experience something that most people would be extremely upset and affected by, and they may have no feelings about it. According to ISST-D, it’s clinically termed “emotional numbing,” and it’s one of the hallmarks of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), a common and unfortunate side-effect of experiencing narcissistic abuse in a rel