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no_hypocrisy

(48,778 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 09:50 AM Nov 6

Well, the Election just gave me some PTSD

How:

I grew up in a family with a malignant narcissistic father, a generic narcissistic mother, my sister as an enabler to our father (Golden Child), and my brother as the Flying Monkey to my sister. It was suffocating as I was the only one who was calling out the contradictions, the gaslighting, the heavy-handed control and restrictions and penalties for protesting.

For ten years (until last night), I've enjoyed a freedom and peace denied to me for 56 years with the death of my father.

Now with the supposed "mandate of the masses", it's like my sister helping our father achieve his goals (against me).

I'm asking how my neighbors, my co-workers, my American brethren could do this act? Fully aware yet apathetic to the consequences, the entire consequences, of their deed.

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Well, the Election just gave me some PTSD (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Nov 6 OP
Me too Clouds Passing Nov 6 #1
In every horror film, the monster always returns. C_U_L8R Nov 6 #2

Clouds Passing

(2,267 posts)
1. Me too
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 10:02 AM
Nov 6


I lived what you lived. These years of dump have been traumatizing; the sexual assault, the negative criticism, the bullying, the scapegoating. Thank Goddess I have a therapist who understands .
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