Encoded Selves

Trauma, Identity, and the Digital

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    Is Neglect Abuse?

    2024-11-30

    Psychodynamically speaking, neglect causes you to miss those milestones, and because of that the safety required to build your sense of a true Self is absent. You are never what you are supposed to be. Who you authentically are. Because that requires safety and healthy mirroring of authenticity from your caregivers. Instead, You are a walking collection of defence mechanisms, but with no soul so to speak. This is the source of all neurosis, and even psychosis.

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    There are many voices in your head

    2024-11-27

    These constructs, attitudes, introjects, whatever you are going to call them, are an internal aspect of you. You are simply bigger than you expected! What makes a person crazy in respect to these factors is when they do not realise that they are internal, they are subjective, they are the stuff of dreams, of meditation, of introspection. A person suffering from a lack of reality testing, such as in schizophrenia, would mistake this internal landscape for an external one.

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    Do narcissists identify as neurodivergent to escape criticism?

    2024-11-26

    Our culture failed to address the moral and normative aspects of mental health. We have no answers for people asking why they are the way they are. So they sometimes rightly point out, and sometimes abuse this hypocrisy for their own gain.

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