Rumination After Narcissistic Abuse: Why Your Mind Won't Stop, and How to Break the Loop
About this episode
This episode discusses the phenomenon of rumination after experiencing narcissistic abuse and offers insights on how to break the mental loop.
Why do you keep replaying a relationship that's already over — running the same five minutes on a loop, searching for the one detail that will finally make sense of it? That wasn't you overthinking. That was your nervous system trying to close a case file that has no ending. You survived a partner who gaslit you and switched faces so that the "true" version of them was never verifiable. This is a highlight from a recent live Q&A, repurposed here as our second weekly podcast segment. In th...
People in this episode
Host: Kerry McAvoy, Ph.D.
Topics covered
- narcissistic abuse
- rumination
- mental health
- gaslighting
- nervous system
Keywords
- narcissistic abuse
- rumination
- gaslighting
- mental health
- nervous system
- relationship
- overthinking
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