Why Did You Stay With Deon? Flashcards
Why did you stay with Deon?
- People pleasing
- Feeling bad for her and wanting to save or help her
- Emotional immaturity
- Joint fantasy
- Survival mode - fight flight freeze fawn fine
- Trauma bond
- You did not know what you know now
- You believed you had faith you trusted
Explain the “inner child” and how it’s related to staying with dmc.
“inner critic”. That’s the voice inside of your head that comes typically from abusive childhood environments that drags you down and tells you you’re useless, you’re not worth anything, you’re not worth loving. That voice that we call the inner critic is the same thing that in more technical psychoanalytic language is called a superego injunction.
When you are dragged down you are powerless, and accept abuse as normal or your fault
What is the complex post-traumatic stress response that is highly narcissistic? That will be damaging to you and damaging to the people around you long-term.
Ask Sara
“What was it I was trying to get in this narcissisticallyabusive relationship that I did not get in my childhood that I’m still grieving for?”
Complicated daddy thing