The Narcissistic abuse cycle: understanding how you became the victim

Narcissistic abuse is a pattern of harmful behaviours used by one person to manipulate / exploit another. It usually consists of a four stage cycle: idealisation, devaluation, discard and hoover.

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The real physical and psychological fallout of a medical misadventure

It’s not easy living with a disability that is as a result of someone’s fuck up. It’s not easy living with the knowledge that no one will ever be held accountable. And its very difficult indeed living in the knowledge that the organisation who’s responsibility ot is to make life better for you actually places very little value on the limb you lost or the trauma caused, either by the original fuck up, or their ongoing poor decision making.

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PTSD / disability: What you don’t see

All social media usually shows is the rosy side of life. I do try to post about the whole picture around living with a medical fuck up acquired disability. But there are always things you don’t see when you read about the rosier side of life.

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