This is me...almost 2 weeks since I and my 2 children fled from my covert narcissistic husband. 20 years enduring narcissist abuse but I did not know it. It was just a prison I had resigned myself to endure and survive. By the grace of God, we're out and I'm here with family that cares about me.

Sounds eerily like the last few years on a national level

You're the best in teaching about CPTSD.

Freedom. I resonate to much of what you say. Our folks were from multi generation CPTSD, and according to the stories started passing it along within a few weeks after birth. One thing that is still so acute is simply not knowing what "normal" actually is. I survived, my brother did not. We know, knew, pain. But did not, do not, know what being in safety and peace is. Now in my 70's. Still don't know. This is accurate information. Information helps. It is not healing. I'll keep listening. I appreciate the work of uncovering, showing, that you are saying. Unspoken, unacknowledged, denied and suppressed, it can never get better.

Such a talented counselor

Great point & highly evolved & intelligent animals are tragically suffering in zoos & circuses from inadequate space, nature & ability to form their own family & groups. Elephants, primates, giraffes & big cats😢

My mother was in captivity trama. I was a child seeing this all happened. So I'm a victim of that trauma saw.. so the work I have to do is just as great..

Firstt my parents kept me under house arrest for my first 22 years of my life and when i moved in with my common law it(i met him in an amatear theatre gruop and had no place to live when my parents just buggered out if town) was another 15 years. I got out of that living hell 22 years ago. I am still haunted by the awful memories, especially being laughed at and discredited for having any normal intellectual capabilities. I may have had developmental issuses, but i sure am not a "mental re$%$d.

Just wanted to show appreciation for all your free KZfaq videos. I am well along in my healing but find them very useful for checking my progress and identifying remaining issues. Big Thank You!!

Thank you for saying what you did about saying no to sharing the story. I was pressured to share my story and it put me in a tailspin for years. Ive worked through that and now have new tools on how to respond 🙏

I cannot thank you and your team enough for this incredible content. As a person who was affected by this, I’ve always sensed the truth including all the tactics that were used to eventually bring me to shut down. Listening to you was like listening to my own witness confirming that I was right about this all along. Even as a 9-10 year old my intuition kept stressing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

....and parents do this to their kids. To their adult children. They think they own them.

Worthy of consideration for your list: debt captivity.

I’m 37 and only just realized I have captivity trauma. I was an only child living in a house with a physically and emotionally abusive father and a psychologically abusive stepmother. My dad would corner me in my room, physically intimidate and hit me in the face while my stepmom blocked my bedroom door so I couldn’t get out. I wasn’t allowed access to the internet or phone. They kept a cordless phone locked in their room and if I needed to make a phone call it had to be from the corded phone in the open kitchen where I could be monitored. Sometimes they would try to give the illusion of not being monitored but I would be able to hear them listening in on the line. I tried to buy a prepay phone at 17 but they found the charger and cut it up. I know this sounds batshit insane… but I also think there were cameras or some kind of recording devices in the house. Describing it now makes me realize how terrifying it actually was on a human level. A violent 6 foot man against a 130 pound teenage girl, with no ability to even call 911. And this was my childhood. This man had sole custody for me from age 6. He started beating me as a very young child. I’m lucky I survived. It’s no wonder I have PTSD.

I'd like to add to the list of captivities... There's a captivity the denial culture in our communities and societies create when they don't acknowledge or make space for the extent of the extreme harm caused by trauma - especially trauma caused by violence. When they refuse to acknowledge the reality of how much suffering so many human beings go through, what it takes to survive, the cost of survival or the cost of recovery. It's a captivity of exclusion from society because you're still suffering and need help but no one is willing to admit it, least of all give it. So the traumatised are blamed for being weak, or useless, or not trying hard enough. -Because most people want to pretend we and our suffering doesn't exist - and it's easier for society to sacrifice us and leave us behind, than to face reality and help us. It's another form of abuse/violence. It kills people

THANK YOU TIM. I struggle so much to be with other people.

A fabulous free resource is Adult Children of Alcohololics and Dysfunctional Families

If you could do one series on Malignant Narcissistic/Sociopath parents and their abuse that would be very insightful for people like us who are child of them and have no idea what is real, normal and healthy. For us Captivity and compliance is normal. However, in adult life we are facing lots of underhanded situations which for us is perfectly normal. So though we are no more captivate in real life but we are still captivate in real sense.

Story of my life - spiritual abuse, 25 years of mental prison, been sued by my "pastor", hosipalized coz of that, with CTPSD and some more diagnoses. TRAUMA IS REAL, as dr Diane Langberg say . This is very good!! Thanks and blessings from Croatia europe. I would love to hear you here in Croatia some day :)

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I appreciate your comment at the end about HT survivors protecting themselves.. I've worked in the field for nearly a decade and I've seen that happen first hand.. survivors being trotted out at church charity events to re live their trauma for the entertainment of the donors. I am aditmitly against it! It's not unusual people will relapse or worse after such public spotlight on a very personal and traumatic experience as being trafficked. Unfortunately, sometimes people are in the business of helping people but it's just that, a business and the people are the product that produces profit. Protect yourself and others and make time and space to heal.

I was deceived into capture when I was a child after running away from my abusive home. The two men were going to take me from Florida to New York and sell me after the rape. I escaped by removing the shingles in the hotel bathroom. I ran for my life. When I made it back home, my mother was angry with me she told the police I was a bad girl. It was never investigated. I blamed myself. But I was glad I saved myself.

Thank you for this discussion 🙏

You understand exactly what zi have been through! Thank you!! This gave me a lot of insight and validation.

My mother was schizophrenic and my father was an addict. I know entrapment. And I know what it takes to heal.

When you listed the five ways you can end up in captivity trauma one was “you can do crime and and end up in captivity trauma “ Please keep in mind you can also not do crime and still end up arrested and imprisoned. In the US the according Pew Research Center’s researchers of the 79,704 defendants who faced federal charges in 2018, only 320 received acquittals at trial. The U.S. Attorney’s Office secured convictions in at least 99.96% of all other cases. Think about that…… 99.96%. of people charged were convicted. Don’t forget about the traumas of the innocent people we imprison regularly even in first world countries. Anyway…. As you were.

You are the best really explaining things love you 💞

Thanks!

This is me with my parents rn. I don't believe I'll survive this

This was me for years

This guy is so smart!

Many of these tactics are ringing pretty familiar.

A narcissistic mother with brother s as flying monks with alcoholic father makes you captive trying to solve all of that.

Types of Captivity Trauma. You missed an entire group - Adoptees & Foster Kids

I'm looking for apt yesterdAy my vitamins were gone due too if you leave 2 days in row much can be taken

Yes, I am totally losing sense of time

No right spells powerhouse's world of wealth. Shutt down of feelings reasoning survival modes are of questioning domestically livable. Tribal living

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When my mom was alive question stuff I answer wow how you all these yrs go with out never ask. ... Christians mom sufferings are long hard pain pretending the blows of threats falling are denial of how hard I get thrown around. Stoic fortitude mass study learning health tips. Bj Thomas the road is long and many a waiting leaves who knows we're. But I'm strong enough to still care. Gentleness. Tell the story

I carry myself well when out driving and places to go home is impossible. Little space. 1 bdrm could be mass drug users. You watch judge. Horrific what people are up against. Barbec living is taking tole on lives in general. Not all can have space between homes. Overreach in businesses are no laughing matter. Silented to comply.

Being big proud either end up intimidating brute forceful. Or pretender rescues im sorry here you go move in to place good luck dont ask dont tell.

My girlfriend would have me arrested for “domestic violence” if I didn’t do what she said. She did physical violence too.

This is big on young with children take glasses articles then give back and dam well it's gaslighting. Form of esteem to get themselves out. They threaten follow you around. For yrs before help on line . Broken bones. Um happy dance like Jewish self soothing over stress helpless.

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Captivity trauma; Your in the "no option" zone.

What if on line getting help . They say stuff about family alarming knowing them when you yourself have had no inter voice or face time extortion if talking to family swinging info threatening circumstances. Laughing. Dont think if you know how this person operates and. Me christian which let slap the other cheek. Wink you can bargain um take it

I laugh at the guilt at what is on the daily done to me. Im boxer now

This is oppression and or subjugation of another

i have watched various videos of you and always felt like i have to question myself and felt defective, because you started to talk about the moon and the starsa and god's plan - but especially this one got me re-traumatized, because i was locked up since two years old for days/weeks on end and you apparantly are very well educated on all of the various motivations, people incarcarete others and talk about it for 50 minutes, only to talk about your own concern of God's bigger plan, your are forcing down hurt people like us?! Watched this video months ago, i felt so LOCKED UP AGAIN, all this gaslighting instead while abusing! Horrible! You are just as abusive, you know what you are doing is serving your own will, but you choose to do it anyway!

Yes if apt in hallway harboring goes on pressure cooker dressing is impossible they I dress in car. They throw food . I know this weird I'm in mid sixty is silenced family never comes check on me. There showboat. A lot is scichological for maintenance. . The consequence for tp bread. Stolen damaged property. Yes I am ashamed but take it step further fear forced threat you move in a lease that silences the renter. I had friends needs it was absolutely inhumane to see or help. Take phone death . You have on line help which I never was online for help that exploitated. Forgive look and how long working on someone with impeccable record . Forced to speak out community drugs passed around.. I was in jail for begging yelling stop of maintenance setup I had big products in climbing stairs horrible situation in jamas let out over night onto city St. Calm laughed if job and tennents. No key no wallet nothing bus driver come sit she took look to here defense go to jail. Smiled thank here knowing starvation mental abuse is my life.

So he grows get better finances threw new supply il be don't ask to tell he's extortion blackmail . Laughing on trips hair bad languages. Star is born growing concern. Brat climbing ladder

Religion cult unfortunately

Yoga for a Christian?! I don’t think so! We are not supposed to worship other gods!