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Assaulted by Bill Cosby with Lili Bernard, Part 2

Navigating Narcissism with Dr. Ramani

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The Traumatized Child's Fantasy of Normality

"I don't want anybody to know that Bill Cosby dragged me and raped me," she says. "The survivorship shame is huge and it's real." The fantasy for the traumatized child is my family is normal, they're happy like other families. No one is harming anyone. That's how they internalize it because the alternative is to believe that the parent is a monster.

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