How Trauma Bonding is Like Addiction (with Angie Atkinson and Lise Colucci) - Trauma bonding is a psychological phenomenon in which one person intermittently reinforces (with good or bad behavior) another person, leading the victim to become addicted—emotionally dependent on their partner.

If you've ever been in a personal relationship with a narcissist (or someone with narcissistic personality disorder -NPD) for even just a few months, you have probably experienced trauma bonding.

When the good stuff ends, the source of the addiction ends, and it causes anxiety within the victim that pushes them back into the relationship.

This discussion offers key insights on how to break these bonds and move away from this addictive behavior pattern.

It's not unusual for people to question themselves and their behavior in a relationship with a Narcissist.

This is true whether you are the Primary Narcissistic Supply Source or not.

The intermittent reinforcement makes it difficult to figure out what you're going through - and it means you can't predict when it will happen again; as many of us have experienced, it comes out of nowhere.

Our perception is fresh and real because we're still experiencing it.

We can also feel the compulsion looping through our minds, staying with us long after the event that caused it (we call this rumination).

The lasting effects are easy to see: You feel insecure, shameful, and hard on yourself, leading to self-sabotage and, eventually, feeling like you've lost yourself.

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