The onset of Sean’s narcissistic injury and the construction of a double life. As his control began to slip, he shifted into covert devaluation and image management; splitting realities, rewriting the narrative, and laying the groundwork for a prolonged campaign of reputational erasure and psychological destabilization.

How I began recognizing abuse through videos the abuser showed me, and how he used trance states, suggestion, and dissociation to condition my silence and compliance.