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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

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"There's no way it could have been abuse/that bad, because I stayed/kept going back." Yeah, unless you were conditioned by CPTSD to believe you couldn't do better, "deserved" it, and/or it was safer to stay or go back than to leave. Also, there's this thing called dissociation.

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Greygoth 's avatar Greygoth @greygoth.bsky.social
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Yes. Dissociation, Manipulation, Contradictions, gaslighting, etc..

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Bebo's avatar Bebo @beb0.bsky.social
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I didn't know that abuse was abnormal until I was in a relationship where I wasn't being abused. People can also be desperate for numerous reasons, the primary one being financial. I don't think the current employment crisis while slowly removing women's rights was on accident during a baby bust.

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