1. Despair.
The first stage is despair. Those of you who are here on my website looking to understand, or acknowledge what you have been living through, likely are at this stage. This stage is when you have reached a point of, “I can’t do this anymore”. Possibly, you aren’t even sure of exactly what you have been living through, but you have reached a breaking point, and you realize that you cannot live this way any longer.
2. Education.
The second stage of healing from hidden abuse is education. You have finally come to the conclusion that something is very wrong here and you’re not the problem, they are. So you go digging for answers and you learn that there is a name for what you have experienced.
Usually, you start googling the behavior you’ve been subjected to, and you come across the words narcissistic personality disorder and the light bulb goes off, the alarm bells go off, and you see it in black and white. And many times you’re shocked or in disbelief, but this sets off an obsessive seeking out as much information as you can to find on narcissistic abuse tactics and what you’ve been subjected to.
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