What proof do I have to say all this? Healing? How can I say so? What proof do I have for that? Well, my own life. I have survived extreme forms of narcissistic abuse, as you may already know if you are a subscriber. If you have not watched other articles or other episodes where I have shared my experiences, watch them now, and you will know what I have been through. So I struggled with this brain damage for a long time. It showed up as brain fog, memory issues, and all the other stuff that I described earlier. It’s through working with my nervous system that I truly experienced a change here, and that change manifested itself with improved focus, accuracy, improved learning, improved recall, and less pressure in the general sense. All of this interesting conversation with my client reminds me of the day I saw one of my first clients, and she said to me, “It’s extremely difficult for me to pick up a book and read a page when I am a scholar. I’m a PhD holder; I have done so many papers; I have published so many papers; and today my condition is so bad that I can’t even read a line because I just can’t understand. I read those words, but I just can’t process them.” And she was the same person later, after a year of healing, who published two more papers at once. I hope this example gives you hope and tells you that there is a possibility for recovery and healing. I hope it helps you release that fear because we are talking about brain damage here and it sounds really serious. Well, it is, but there is healing as well. You’re not a failed case; you just have to know what resources you need, how to work on your nervous system, what your trauma responses are, and you have to devise a strategy, a plan so that you can attain the outcome of keeping your nervous system in a regulated state for most of the time, and as a byproduct of that, you will see the changes happening in here.
In conclusion, narcissistic abuse stress causes functional brain damage, it changes the brain’s anatomy, changes the structure, there is amygdala inflammation, there is hippocampus shrinkage, frontal lobe also changes, so does the Broca’s area, which is responsible for language production, syntax, speech, muscular movement of our tongue, and other muscles that produce speech, and so on. It’s because of the overall change in the brain that area can also change, which may produce difficulty in language comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking. If you are struggling with any of this, there is hope for you because there is neuroplasticity. You have to work on your nervous system, and as a byproduct of that, you will heal your brain.
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