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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 6) : Taking on the rescuing role
Dont you start playing victim! (because that’s the role I have in mind for myself) I cant cope with… what youve just said, what youve just done…. (you’re expected to alleviate me, not challenge me, you’re supposed to soothe… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 5): The Little Grown Up
Turn up at a church youth group hiding scratch marks under your sleeve, or bruises on your arm, and you are treated as a project, someone who needs attention and even too damaged to be considered useful. Turn up as… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 4) – Asbestos feet; From Eggshells to Empathy.
Thank you for reading, this is part 4 of my survival story, do check out parts 1-3 in the menu to the right, though each part can be read separately. This one may contain details that could trigger. Growing up… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (part 3): Trainspotting (at Clapham Junction)
One way of surviving psychopathic parents was to become immersed in the world of trainspotting. The drugs, alcohol and destruction, and why I resonate with this 1996 film Though I joke somewhat, reacting to emotional abuse can easily easily end… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 2) Why I broke my grandmothers clock.
‘Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken’ (Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score, 2014) I broke my grandmothers bedside clock. I didn’t kick it, throw it, sit on it,… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (part 1)
Not many say this and live to tell the tale, though if you have been following along with my other posts, you will know that not all psychopaths are serial killers, some happen to be church leaders, with this being… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 