If you’ve ever had difficulty empathizing with survivors of narcissistic abuse, imagine living with this gaslighting for years and the gaslighting is done by someone who knows your vulnerabilities with whom you share a life.

And you’re alone, isolated.

It’s amazing we survive.
I repeat “we are our greatest strength” because it matters.

If we didn’t have the ability to serve as reality-checks for one another, we would be in a far more dire situation.

His attacks the media are analogous to narcissistic abusers’ efforts to isolate their victims.
As those of us who have lived through these dynamics interpersonally know, the sad reality is there is no easy end to this situation.

Malignant narcissists attempt to annihilate those with whom their relationships end.

Trump will target our nation for annihilation if he loses.
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