i think the main antidote is to focus on the primitive patterns like i said, cos it isn’t rly possible for ppl to make up 10 different context-dependent excuses to explain the same pattern lasting over years<br><br>their actions clearly created impenetrable situations for me

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@shoutplenty

writing’s not going well so far lol

one of the hardest battles fought vs gaslighting is, unsurprisingly, becoming psychotic owing to the sustained erosion of reality

people can smell the psychosis and are programmed to think this means the victim isn’t telling the truth [1/7] https://twitter.com/shoutplenty/status/1752397947629695172

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i think the main antidote is to focus on the primitive patterns like i said, cos it isn’t rly possible for ppl to make up 10 different context-dependent excuses to explain the same pattern lasting over years

their actions clearly created impenetrable situations for me

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@shoutplenty

and a lot of what the real problems are and the way i should’ve reacted (and should still react) are based on the facts from the very beginnings of the timelines anyway

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unfortunately, people don’t understand the severity of lying and bullying and realistically, they relate more to liars and bullies than they do to some1 like me. so i’m kind of up against it

ig it’s like a sheep tryna explain its generational abattoir trauma to a pack of dogs

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this is why the main thing is to let go of being believed, but it’s also important to take seriously the duty of telling the story regardless. so you can’t avoid playing that game

and that’s for the best cos it then moderates the psychosis, forces me to sleep on it

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it’s kind of a fascinating thing, battling to be believed against a force that’s tryna turn u insane so it can call u insane

the biggest problem being that the abuses clearly did happen, hence that ppl don’t take enough of a zero-sum approach to realising smth must’ve caused it

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it’s also a super lonely thing cos you’re the only 1 being subjected to the gaslighting and can’t tell others w/o being questioned. they’ll promise support and it’ll just evaporate

you have to realise they can’t help you and stop getting stuck in pointless soul-destroying convos

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