waking up to narcissistic abuse: dissociation and depression as coping mechanisms

May 1 2006 - a long time ago in another reality.

Instagram pages like the one I pulled this quote pic from didn’t exist in 2006. I’m so glad they do now, as many ppl are waking up to the normalized fuckery that is narcissistic abuse.

I wrote this at a time when nearly every person in my world was either abusive, or also being abused - or most likely, both…