Fix CPTSD Podcast | Psychology and Philosophy in Narcissistic Times with Richard Grannon

This is a one, long response to a lady's email, giving a counselling on her problems. As our patterns are often similar, you may find some of these descriptions accurate to your situation, and the solutions presented helpful. (00:00) Hello (00:23) Eczema as a 'Thin Skin' (Boundaries) (02:42) Being Defensive of One's Parents is Natural (05:13) Massive Parental Expectations (06:47) Unclear Communication as a Manipulation (09:02) What is Overachiever Syndrome? (14:06) Self-parenting & Acknowledging Your Own Achievements (15:35) Narcissistic Mother & Emotional Abuse Being Like Psychological AIDS (19:49) Repressed Drives (22:55) The Zoo Story About Caging Natural Drives (25:55) Parent's Not Giving a F (28:19) Inheriting Parent's Toxic Traits? (30:26) "I Don't Deal With Stress Very Well" (32:46) Disney's Lion King Death Scene Might Have Been Traumatic (35:32) Abandonment Anxiety (36:28) Brain Playing Upsetting Mental Videos (Imagining a Funeral) (40:01) Anxiety Attacks as a Result of Overachiever Syndrome & Fear of Death (42:11) It's Great to Finally Process Grief and Anger (44:32) Richard's Story About Healing His Sadness Part 1 (47:31) Richard's Story About Healing His Sadness Part 2 (48:19) A Technique for Dealing With Provocations From Martial Arts of Psychology

Remember how you were graded, and your performance reviewed over years and years by school and institutions? What could happen if we reverse that? How would it be like to actually review the situations and people in your life yourself? How empowering that could be? Let's find out! (00:01) Hello, Good Morning (02:25) Richard's Story About Being a Product in a Relationship (06:46) Is There a Consumer Mindset in Relationships & Where Does It Come From? (Grades and Reviews) (15:15) I Am Not Actually Enjoying the Service You're Providing (17:26) How We Allow Ourselves to Review Other Things (And Criticism of Bad Story Writing) (20:37) Expanding the Reviewing Mindset (21:32) Consumer Ideology in Modern Relationships (and Sam Vaknin Reference) (24:26) The Problem With Having "Gaggle of Geese"/intimacy Clouds (28:49) You Can't Ask for What You Don't Offer (29:56) Passive Consumer's Approach is the Worst for Long-term Relationships (32:52) You Have a Right to Say "This Sucks and I Don't Like This"

We often listen to the people in high positions, that aren't necessarily qualified to discuss the topics that they do. In this conversation with Sam Vaknin, we explore the phenomena of the Public Intellectual, and the problems we're facing. (0:00) What Is A Public Intellectual What Responsibilities Do They Have? (4:20) Why Is It Hard To Find A Real Public Intellectual These Days? (7:26) Expertise vs. Anti-Expertise (12:14) The Problem Of Celebrities Overtaking Qualifications (15:57) Fake It Till You Make It Philosophy (18:25) Discussing the Incentive to Radicalize In Order To Get More Money (21:13) Relativity of Ideas Is To Blame? (25:13) Some Texts Should Never Be Deconstructed (27:21) Talking About the Death of the Author (31:46) The Outcomes Of Interpreting Everything (33:12) Can A So-Called Public Intellectual Be Involved In Politics? (35:52) The Role And Responsibilities Of Public Intellectuals (39:16) Today’s Public Intellectuals Do The Opposite Of What They’re Supposed To Do Part 1 (42:49) Today’s Public Intellectuals Do The Opposite Of What They’re Supposed To Do Part 2 (45:00) Public Intellectuals Launching Their Own Ideology (49:00) Presenting Ideology as a Science (53:25) Would Psychology Benefit From Dropping The Pretense? (56:58) Did Freud Write Controversial Things Just To Sell Books And Seminars? (1:00:48) Do Sometimes Public Intellectuals Choose To Be Fake In Order To Get What They Want? (1:03:28) Acquired Situational Narcissism and Today’s Public Intellectuals (1:06:12) Sam Vaknin Talks About the Public Intellectuals He Admires (1:10:36) Should Public Intellectuals Comfort People or Tell the Truth? (1:13:22) Sam Vaknin Talks About Donald Trump

Healing can be a long journey. It takes time, yet it brings delightful fruits on the way. Check out this discussion with two, very experienced coaches, Terry McCoy and Steve Heneghan if you want to hear their insights about recovering from emotional abuse. (00:07) Steve and Terry Talk About the Reasons Why They Quit Their Previous Jobs Part 1 (03:35) Steve and Terry Talk About the Reasons Why They Quit Their Previous Jobs Part 2 (06:37) Resentment as a Symptom of People Pleaser Syndrome (07:49) A Story About Cutting Off the Goose's Head (11:14) How Would It Affect a Child to Be Hyperbolically Praised in a Way They Won't Believe? Part 1 (15:37) How Would It Affect a Child to Be Hyperbolically Praised in a Way They Won't Believe? Part 2 (19:17) Feeling Disgust When Being Approached in an Intimate Context Part 1 (24:04) Feeling Disgust When Being Approached in an Intimate Context Part 2 (28:52) Feeling Disgust Because of the Core Belief That They’re Not Lovable (32:50) Discussing the McGregor Fight (37:22) Protecting Yourself From a Narcissist (40:52) Talking About Reacting Seeking Communication and Triggers Part 1 (44:55) Talking About Reacting Seeking Communication and Triggers Part 2 (49:27) Terry and Steve Discuss Changing the Mindset and Getting Neuroplasticity (54:34) Externalizing the Locus of Control Makes a Person Open for Narcissistic Abuse (57:26) “How Does Hypnosis Work With a Person’s Past Trauma and Abuse?” Part 1 (1:02:20) “How Does Hypnosis Work With a Person’s Past Trauma and Abuse?” Part 2 (1:08:08) How Imagination Influences the Unconscious and How Noticing Emotions Can Help Part 1 (1:12:19) How Imagination Influences the Unconscious and How Noticing Emotions Can Help Part 2 (1:14:52) Wrapping Up

If you only heard about hypnosis from the mainstream, it's probably wrong. Why, and how it is mythologized? What can it REALLY do to people? Here's everything you need to know about hypnosis, including answers to many common questions! Check it out now! (00:00) How Hypnosis is Mythologized (03:16) The Truth of Hypnosis (07:34) How is It Possible to Fix Your Lifetime of Trouble That You've Never Been Able to Fix Just by Hypnosis? (12:58) Advice to Anybody Who Wants to Use Self-hypnosis (16:43) The Difference Between the Conscious and the Unconscious (20:15) Laying New Neural Pathways With the Help of Hypnosis (23:41) Whatever You Do a Lot of, You're Gonna Get Good at (28:57) Why is the World Not Revolutionized by Hypnosis if It Works? (31:17) Can a Hypnotist Make It So the Person Starts Barking Like a Dog? (33:33) How Do You Protect Yourself From Unwanted Hypnosis? (36:42) Is Hypnosis Gaslighting? (37:13) I Recently Tried NLP Audio Tapes to Promote Weight Loss Only to Find Out I Keep the Weight on to Protect Myself From Intimacy. What Do I Do? (38:08) The Difference Between Meditation and Self-hypnosis (39:31) The Consequences of Bad NLP and Hypnosis (41:26) Can Hypnosis Wear Off? (42:33) Would Hypnosis Help With Abandonment Anxiety? (43:56) Will Hypnosis Open Us Up to Demonic Influence? (45:51) Talking About the Use of Psychedelics (49:09) Is It Possible for the Subconscious Mind to Pick Up Negative Messages That Can't Be Heard While Being Awake? (52:09) Can Hypnosis Work on ADHD? (53:36) Talking About Ayahuasca (58:31) Wrapping Up

Differentiating emotional flashback from normal reaction, dating covert narcissist, sense of humor, dealing with people, and more in this Q&A session. (00:13) Talking About the Difficulty of Reading the “CPTSD: Form Surviving to Thriving” Book (00:13) Answering Questions About Seminars (04:38) How to Make a Decision (06:46) What’s the Difference Between an Emotional Flashback and Righteous Upsetness (07:33) Talking About Accents (10:47) Advice for a Person Who’s Dating a Covert Narcissist (12:34) Mimicking Accents and Telling Jokes About Different Cultures is a Good Boundary Breaker (14:25) Talking About a Seminar in La (15:42) A Funny Story About Speaking Chinese (17:07) What to Do When You’re Feeling Guilty When Taking Care of Yourself (19:59) How to Un-isolate Yourself After Narcissist Trauma Recovery (20:34) Recommendation for a Person Who’s Been Diagnosed With Several Mental Health Issues (22:44) How to Rebuild Neuro Pathways (24:20) How to Not Experience Fear When Someone Gives a Look or Glares (30:59) Some People Are Just Dickheads and They Live to Create Chaos (35:27) Why Do People Like Seeing Others Fail? (39:54) Why Do People Like to Believe in What’s Fed to Them? (46:03) Answering Short Questions (47:25) Talking About Dyslexia

If there is one thing that can save every human right now, I believe it's this. The cure to the world's insanity. A medicine for your mind. A relief for your soul. That thing is... (00:07) Bombardment of Content Stressing the Cell (04:35) What Are You Letting Into Your Brain? (05:45) The Content Free Stillness (07:08) Overstimulating Spectacle of Content (12:02) Associate in Your Own Body, Your Own Space (And Let the Silence Be the Doctrine)

Eckhart Tolle, meditation, MKUltra, social media and more covered in this Q&A Session from February 2019. (00:01) Hello (01:37) “How can we encourage others to get off social media?” (05:03) “Flat earth. Where do you stand on this?” (06:22) “Are you an atheist?” (08:09) Answering A Question About Doing An Interview With Gabor Mate (08:50) Answering A Question About Getting Off Social Media (11:10) Thoughts On Pickup Artists (14:09) “What are the points where you disagree with Eckhart Tolle?” (16:31) Answering Short Questions (20:16) “Do you meditate?” (23:40) “What’s the best way to heal codependency?” (25:34) “Have you seen dirty john on Netflix?” (27:38) Answering short questions (31:42) Thoughts in MKUltra Part 1 (35:09) Thoughts in MKUltra Part 2 (39:39) Responding To Short Comments (40:53) Wrapping Up

What is the Dark Tetrad described by psychiatry? What are the predatory personalities tactics of manipulation? Find this out in this short excerpt from a seminar. (00:25) DSM's Cluster B, Dark Triad and Machiavellianism (02:27) Differences Between Disorders (03:44) Megalomania (05:12) The Zombie Curses and How Do They Work

Live Q&A Session recording from March 2019, covered topic include social media, BPD, mental health and more. (00:07) Stating Today’s Topic (02:20) Ending Up With A Slow Poisoning Effect Of A Dogma (04:53) What The Channel Grew Up From Part 1 (10:36) What The Channel Grew Up From Part 2 (12:41) Talking About Using Social Media In Order To Learn Together (14:31) Answering Short Questions (16:31) “Where Did Your Interest In The Effects Of Social Media Stem From?” (21:09) Talking About Using YouTube (25:34) Difference Between The God Complex And NPD (27:01) Talking About Messianic Complex (28:03) Thoughts On Gabor Mate With Regard To Addictions And Trauma (30:15) Thoughts On How Social Media Affects Dating Culture (35:08) “Social Media Makes Me Fear I Cannot Protect Myself Against Infidelity. Any Thoughts?” (36:56) Social Media Is A Real Issue Amongst People Of All Ages (38:46) Is Depression Around Birthday Related To CPTSD? (39:58) How Do You Reparent? (41:28) What Do You Do When You Have Troubles Falling Asleep? (44:08) “BPD Victims Get Shunned And Invalidated Because The BPD Overshadows Their Disorder With A Supposed Attached Stigma. Thoughts?” (48:09) What Do You Do When Your Friends Are Borderline? (51:13) Friendships Don’t Last With BPD (53:46) Extreme Jealousy In BPD (57:46) “How Can We Step Out Of Resentment?” (58:51) How We Internally Talk Might Affect Our Health (1:02:30) “Any Recommendations On PTSD Recovery Literature Besides Pete Walker’s Book?” (1:05:08) Is There An Overlapping Between CPTSD And Asperger’s? (1:06:26) Responding To Short Comments (1:09:53) Wrapping Up