What To Do After Narcissistic Relationship : 5 Steps

[pickle]

Gives you fibromyalgia and breaks your ability to self regulate your emotions, and the more you try to explain to any one what they are doing, the more you look mad, and like the “problem”

[ชีวิตวัยชรา]

To anyone reading this, even if you are being abused and manipulated by them, don't give up. I hope the long nights of tears will give way to the dawn of hope and peace. You can do it.

[anniemiller]

They are cold blooded, entitled sadistic entities…

[JanMorsø]

We all are, the world is under narcissistic abuse.

[huldaherna]

Depletion of energy, don't forget that. The long term stress of the target is depleting.

[robinfree]

💖I lived with PTSD from the age of 10 to 47. They ruined my whole life. I'm only now starting to figure out who I am. 💖🙏

[lizpetruzzi]

Healing and recovery take time but it does happen! 5 years out, no new relationships intentionally. It feels good to live simply and enjoy friends and family, my dogs and garden without being turned inside out. Peace is priceless.

[CapitalK]

These have been my key practices to heal from CPTSD and narc abuse:
Sobriety! I’m going on 3.5 years and couldn’t be happier without self medication in my life.
Therapy. With a good therapist, once a week, religiously. When things were/are hard, I go twice a week.
EMDR. It’s a trip but it works!
Journaling, which I’ve done my whole entire life.
Writing affirmations daily in an attempt to reprogram my brain, my automatic thoughts.
Listening to binaural beats.
Listening to guided meditations/hypnosis affirmations as I sleep.
Floating regularly in a float tank.
Music music music. It’s a balm for my soul.
Meditation, though if I’m honest, I don’t do it regularly enough.
Exercise, walk outdoors.
Love my dog.
Practice gratitude everyday!
Ground myself, put my bare feet on the earth
Be in nature as much as possible.
Practice self compassion and acceptance of self. Forgive myself.
Thanks for reading. ❤

[Iamhere]

Im sick of never being right about anything. Im sick of my reality being different to what i know it is. Im sick of being told how to feel. Im sick of being told im wrong or mean or what to think or what happened when i know its different. Im sick of explaining my reality over and over and being told its different. Im sick sick sick.

[wellitsawkward]

I feel so stuck. I definitely think this kind of abuse should be illegal. I need Devine intervention. Cptsd is no joke.

[MrBeard-igzc]

You and Sam Vaknin helped me get my life back. She literally controlled my endocrine system. I was in a full blown panic attack for a year. It took many months to recover. I watched 100’s of hours of you and Sam and a few others. Now I see it so clearly, especially my part allowing it. Thank you.

[ksletnf]

Richard: You forgot to mention the good part of it - after 5 years of living in abuse I have grown a narcissist radar detector. I’m no longer manipulated, in all aspects of life. Including having analyzed my childhood to figure out why I was vulnerable to these types.
Thank you for posting, your videos helped me so much analyze and figure out what was going on and why.

[gracerules]

Ugh! Has anyone else experienced an intense anger stage? I’ve been having a flood of flashbacks and the new framework infuriates me. I try to resolve it in my mind by trying to figure out what I could have done differently and the realization that anything I could have done would have escalated it. My husband was and is so trauma bonded that he does not have my back with his narc cult family. I reached my window of tolerance that propels me to work through the painful healing journey, but because he is resistant it’s like sleeping with the enemy in my own home. It’s lonely. We’ve been completely No Contact for over 2 years. The battle never ends, they continue to see it as a challenge to cause us harm through proxies. That is the part that is the last straw for me, that makes it a struggle for me to forgive, but I go through the motions anyway for myself to heal. The good news, I see the red flags now when the devil sends fresh Narc replacements in our life. Nope ✋

[Itzanunnya]

Definitely not an experience I would ever wish on anyone. Very sneaky, slow
CPTD is not simple to recover from. NO CONTACT. Thank you RG for all of your guidance, modalities, sharing your experiences and validating that the future is and remains BRIGHT. Keep it real, raw and direct!
NO CONTACT.

[annacampobasso-hernandez]

40 years in this dynamic…now I’m rising above this❤️

[lilsumpn]

I just told me narc ex before blocking him that being in relationship with him feels like one giant punishment and a punishment on top of another punishment

[marywg]

I have just ended a 5-year on and off abusive relationship with a narcissist..The day before Christmas Eve..now I feel bad for throwing him out before Christmas...but he was so abusive towards me, calling me names, belitelling me, causing scenes in public all the time, giving me silent treatment even in this time, while I was begging him to talk to me, to have a nice Christmas season as planned...I know this cycle so well as it is numerous break-up with him...but it hurts damn hard...I am afraid of the days to come...afraid of the pain...

[poemsjones]

Get up save yourself, block and delete get your power back. I dealt with this for 2 and half year I decided enough was enough block and delete, you will gain your strength not being in an addiction.

[watchmeheal]

After 25yrs ‘thinking’ if only I’d do this, said that, acted this way, didn’t stay this…… he would eventually love me, want me, see me, and appreciate me!!…. LIES!!

[lieagain]

CPTSD is brutal, but with no contact, Richard, Sam Vaknan, my therapist, and my fellow targets on TikTok I have begun to heal. The holidays last year was when the discard started, so I’ve been in some phase of a flashback since December 20.

I remind myself that I am safe and he is emotionally unwell. I reread how awful he treated me in my journals and I observe what I’m feeling. Lots of tears and rage.

Recovery is not linear. Grace, self-care, listening to experts and self- care gets me through.