Rambling About CPTSD During A Google Hangout

All about recovery from emotional abuse and CPTSD in this Q&A session, also including two live chats.

(00:00) What does setting boundaries with ourselves exactly mean?

(04:27) Richard Mentions His Experience and Qualifications

(06:59) Cultivating the Virtue of Discipline

(09:09) How to deal with anger and realization that you have been used?

(20:11) How do you open yourself up to a relationship again after being in one with a narcissist?

(22:29) Where do I begin to find a treatment or a therapist regarding CPTSD?

(24:15) How do you stand on dissociative personality disorder?

(27:17) The 4 Stress Responses & Explaining the Freeze Response

(31:54) Split Personality, Parts & the Problem With Psychological Models

(37:44) How many sessions on average it takes for somebody to get better?

(41:54) Does the CPTSD and flashbacks go away if someone does the necessary self-help work?

(44:40) Is recovery from childhood abuse kind of reframing and understanding ourselves and what happened?

(45:53) Is it normal for your physical body to get sick or tired during the self-help work?

(49:39) Is it normal for a covert narcissist or borderline to accuse their mate of being a narcissist? 

(52:59) People Willing Playing the Game With Abusers

(55:20) How do we know we are not projecting the narcissism on others?

(58:53) Is everyone who was or is in relationship with narcissist a codependent?

(1:01:09) What do you do when there's hardly anyone left in your left? (avoiding the post-traumatic embitterment syndrome)

(1:08:04) Getting Into a Trauma Bond With Institutions and Programs for People With Addiction

(1:13:32) Is there a way to deprogram this?

(1:14:31) The Golden Child and Scapegoating

(1:16:26) Goodbye