The Hardest Thing to Understand for People Who Haven’t Experienced Narcissistic Abuse

And what victims need to understand in order to recover from it.

A sad woman sits alone thinking (via Envato Elements)

There are few greater obstacles to the healing of narcissistic abuse victims than the naysayers who exist everywhere. Survivors can’t open up about a single experience without encountering them — well-meaning individuals who shoot down and deny the experiences of survivors out of their own willful ignorance.

They haven’t ever experienced narcissistic abuse, so they can’t fathom that it exists. Acting entirely from their own sense of reality, they harm those trying to break generations of trauma when they deny their experiences and the feelings that survivors (rightfully) develop on the other side of narcissistic abuse.

Whether or not non-victims like it, narcissistic abuse does exist, and it is far different than any single type of abuse. This multi-layered abuse happens across decades and generations. It exists as an open secret in families, where children are raised in fear and denial of themselves and their realities. Narcissists exist everywhere and where they exist you find people in pain.

For collective healing to happen, non-victims need not only to understand the core realities of narcissistic abuse…they need…