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					<description><![CDATA[I have been looking for what seems like forever trying to find out how to deal with my ex narcissist.  I cannot use the no contact rule because we live in the same building.  I was thrilled to finally find this site. I will not give up ever....Everything you said in the beginning of your article was exactly word for word what I have said myself, so you really caught my attention.  I can&#039;t even begin to say how greatfull I am that you did not sink so far down that you ended your life...I have been in therapy...and although it helps in some areas of my life it did not help one bit regarding narcissistic partners.  You are the first and only person that has offered a way to really free myself from this.. I don&#039;t think I can ever thank you enough for this truly life saving information!!!!!!!!!!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been looking for what seems like forever trying to find out how to deal with my ex narcissist.  I cannot use the no contact rule because we live in the same building.  I was thrilled to finally find this site. I will not give up ever&#8230;.Everything you said in the beginning of your article was exactly word for word what I have said myself, so you really caught my attention.  I can&#8217;t even begin to say how greatfull I am that you did not sink so far down that you ended your life&#8230;I have been in therapy&#8230;and although it helps in some areas of my life it did not help one bit regarding narcissistic partners.  You are the first and only person that has offered a way to really free myself from this.. I don&#8217;t think I can ever thank you enough for this truly life saving information!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		By: J		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[J]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-12443&quot;&gt;D&lt;/a&gt;.

Unbelievable how I watched this after typing 4 pages of how my mother treated me over the last year and how destructive it has been.  I keep reliving her attempts at making me look bad so that she can become the victim just so that I can convince myself that I&#039;m not the perpetrator. Incredibly draining. But since I&#039;ve gone No Contact, it&#039;s been extremely difficult knowing she has turned my father and siblings away from me.  Hope to find more here....  need to escape the negative thinking.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-12443">D</a>.</p>
<p>Unbelievable how I watched this after typing 4 pages of how my mother treated me over the last year and how destructive it has been.  I keep reliving her attempts at making me look bad so that she can become the victim just so that I can convince myself that I&#8217;m not the perpetrator. Incredibly draining. But since I&#8217;ve gone No Contact, it&#8217;s been extremely difficult knowing she has turned my father and siblings away from me.  Hope to find more here&#8230;.  need to escape the negative thinking.</p>
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		By: Joy Berke		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How refreshing and wonderful to hear someone saying what I have been attempting to get across for years.  Staying in your story and in your negative feelings just creates more negativity and roots you more firmly in the past where the stories took place.  You did a wonderful job explaining the biochemistry.  I only touched on this subject in my own book trying to concentrate more on the healing process.  Many readers have told me (and written reviews) that I am a &#039;pollyanna&#039; and they can&#039;t understand how I have been able to forgive and even have &#039;love&#039; for my ex without having any contact with him.  The only thing in my book I would rewrite is claiming to want to have a &#039;monogamous part-time relationship&#039; with him.  It was written tongue-in-cheek because of its impossibility and I thought people would understand that but I was wrong.  I wrote it because he can be so charming, fun and attentive that it would make for a &#039;good boyfriend&#039;.  Again kudos to you.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How refreshing and wonderful to hear someone saying what I have been attempting to get across for years.  Staying in your story and in your negative feelings just creates more negativity and roots you more firmly in the past where the stories took place.  You did a wonderful job explaining the biochemistry.  I only touched on this subject in my own book trying to concentrate more on the healing process.  Many readers have told me (and written reviews) that I am a &#8216;pollyanna&#8217; and they can&#8217;t understand how I have been able to forgive and even have &#8216;love&#8217; for my ex without having any contact with him.  The only thing in my book I would rewrite is claiming to want to have a &#8216;monogamous part-time relationship&#8217; with him.  It was written tongue-in-cheek because of its impossibility and I thought people would understand that but I was wrong.  I wrote it because he can be so charming, fun and attentive that it would make for a &#8216;good boyfriend&#8217;.  Again kudos to you.</p>
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		By: Denise		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[your video explained to me exactly what is wrong with me. I have been NC for a year,I don&#039;t talk about it to anyone because I feel like I&#039;m the crazy one ,but its always on my mind.At first when I found out what he was and it wasn&#039;t me etc... I was excited to know and thought id just get over it after reading everything I could find out about it. I have all the symptoms you described . my dr told me I have ptss,anxiety,&#038; even agorophobia . I feel hopeless unhappy &#038; like my life will never be worth living. but I didn&#039;t know all of it was from my experience with N. before N I did not have low self esteem ,I had lots of friends my kids were grown &#038; I was looking forward to a life of my own free &#038; able to go places &#038; do things that I&#039;ve waited for since I had my first child at 16. since I&#039;ve been away from him so long I didn&#039;t realize that this is why I have nothing to look forward to &#038; don&#039;t even try anymore. I stopped answering my phone period to my kids,friends &#038; everyone I just can&#039;t even stand to make smalltalk or gossip I skip appointments unless I have to go .I don&#039;t want to be like this anymore &#038; now I know why &#038; that it can be helped. because even knowing I still can have the life I always looked forward to I didn&#039;t understand why I didn&#039;t care or try to live it. I&#039;m going to seriously use everything in me to get rid of this addiction  and live in the world not locked in my room hating to hear the phone ring or anyone knocking on my door .thank you so much for making me see that my life isn&#039;t over and its not just going to get better with pills or time. I hope I have explained my situation without sounding like I&#039;m on the verge of suicide I as just waiting for natural causes believing I would die a miserable unhappy person. even times that should be happy to me really aren&#039;t I just pretended. I will be grateful for the day I&#039;m not pretending anymore. thanks again .]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>your video explained to me exactly what is wrong with me. I have been NC for a year,I don&#8217;t talk about it to anyone because I feel like I&#8217;m the crazy one ,but its always on my mind.At first when I found out what he was and it wasn&#8217;t me etc&#8230; I was excited to know and thought id just get over it after reading everything I could find out about it. I have all the symptoms you described . my dr told me I have ptss,anxiety,&amp; even agorophobia . I feel hopeless unhappy &amp; like my life will never be worth living. but I didn&#8217;t know all of it was from my experience with N. before N I did not have low self esteem ,I had lots of friends my kids were grown &amp; I was looking forward to a life of my own free &amp; able to go places &amp; do things that I&#8217;ve waited for since I had my first child at 16. since I&#8217;ve been away from him so long I didn&#8217;t realize that this is why I have nothing to look forward to &amp; don&#8217;t even try anymore. I stopped answering my phone period to my kids,friends &amp; everyone I just can&#8217;t even stand to make smalltalk or gossip I skip appointments unless I have to go .I don&#8217;t want to be like this anymore &amp; now I know why &amp; that it can be helped. because even knowing I still can have the life I always looked forward to I didn&#8217;t understand why I didn&#8217;t care or try to live it. I&#8217;m going to seriously use everything in me to get rid of this addiction  and live in the world not locked in my room hating to hear the phone ring or anyone knocking on my door .thank you so much for making me see that my life isn&#8217;t over and its not just going to get better with pills or time. I hope I have explained my situation without sounding like I&#8217;m on the verge of suicide I as just waiting for natural causes believing I would die a miserable unhappy person. even times that should be happy to me really aren&#8217;t I just pretended. I will be grateful for the day I&#8217;m not pretending anymore. thanks again .</p>
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		By: survivor		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-12452&quot;&gt;Melanie Tonia Evans&lt;/a&gt;.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU LITERALLY AM SAVING MY LIFE!  I am so happy that I found out this info, and found your site.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-12452">Melanie Tonia Evans</a>.</p>
<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU LITERALLY AM SAVING MY LIFE!  I am so happy that I found out this info, and found your site.</p>
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		By: Doreen		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-12452&quot;&gt;Melanie Tonia Evans&lt;/a&gt;.

hi! before coming across your site and newsletter i had never heard someone who had been abused like me before. in fact i used to not even be sure if it was abuse or not, even because my boyfriend used to negate the abuse. he used to brush off my feelings and accuse me of imagining and inventing everything. i am trying extremely hard to get away from him but i am addicted to him. i keep &quot;missing what we once had&quot; and even though i know i shouldnt go back to him, i feel my life is empty without him. can you help??]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-12452">Melanie Tonia Evans</a>.</p>
<p>hi! before coming across your site and newsletter i had never heard someone who had been abused like me before. in fact i used to not even be sure if it was abuse or not, even because my boyfriend used to negate the abuse. he used to brush off my feelings and accuse me of imagining and inventing everything. i am trying extremely hard to get away from him but i am addicted to him. i keep &#8220;missing what we once had&#8221; and even though i know i shouldnt go back to him, i feel my life is empty without him. can you help??</p>
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		By: Jac		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-13813&quot;&gt;niks&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Nicks :) 
I was in two abusive relationships one after the other too, and the first for me was a man with &#039;OCD/Narcissism/Schitzoid, but was a lamb compared to the one 3 months later. The first one tried everything to get some help including meds, but couldn&#039;t cope. He was honest and upfront about how he felt and we parted mutually, even looking after me financially. (I obviously had very strong co-dependency needs, when I met the second man), who was &#039;Narc/Psychopath/Sociopath and had some &#039;borderline PD traits&#039; which is usually diagnosed in women more than men. Saw those traits early on. It seemed he was quite a bagful and his mood swings were very consistent with &#039;bipolar&#039;..., on a high for a while, treating me like a goddess to horrific abuse, if something brought him down the next. Great you are spreading the word too and I hope you are recovering ok. :) It is so good to be free from the hell of living with these  &#039;disordered people&#039; NEVER AGAIN!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-the-phenomenon-of-narcissistic-abuse-occurs-and-how-you-can-overcome-it-p1/#comment-13813">niks</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Nicks 🙂<br />
I was in two abusive relationships one after the other too, and the first for me was a man with &#8216;OCD/Narcissism/Schitzoid, but was a lamb compared to the one 3 months later. The first one tried everything to get some help including meds, but couldn&#8217;t cope. He was honest and upfront about how he felt and we parted mutually, even looking after me financially. (I obviously had very strong co-dependency needs, when I met the second man), who was &#8216;Narc/Psychopath/Sociopath and had some &#8216;borderline PD traits&#8217; which is usually diagnosed in women more than men. Saw those traits early on. It seemed he was quite a bagful and his mood swings were very consistent with &#8216;bipolar&#8217;&#8230;, on a high for a while, treating me like a goddess to horrific abuse, if something brought him down the next. Great you are spreading the word too and I hope you are recovering ok. 🙂 It is so good to be free from the hell of living with these  &#8216;disordered people&#8217; NEVER AGAIN!</p>
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		By: caylin selene crystal		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been in recovery from childhood sexual abuse for years now. I had to leave a support group because to me i felt as if most of these people did not want to get better. I DID and I DO! I have spoken to people who have been in therapy for up to 10+ yrs and still dead and broken! This i knew was not &quot;GETTING BETTER&quot;. I have known for some time that therapy will bring all the garbage to the surface but it did not heal a person. I am an energy healer and i know about energy and it&#039;s effect&#039;s for quite sometime. I knew that in order to heal the energetic system, well left over negative energy had to be removed and replaced by possitive energy. Now with the explanation of the peptides i can have a mental picture in my mind as to what is happening in my body and my mind. The only way to heal from any trauma is on an energetic level, period. Very few want to beleive this however, i would not be alive today had i not started to release these negative thoughts (which are energy in motion)You are one of the only people that use energy methods to heal from trauma, there are more but they often take it to a very different place, which scares alot of people, when in truth it can be given to us through an easily understood method. Looking forward to your next video. Thank you. Love and light to you and everyone else who wants to feel alive again, or maybe for the first time. Blessings, Caylin]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been in recovery from childhood sexual abuse for years now. I had to leave a support group because to me i felt as if most of these people did not want to get better. I DID and I DO! I have spoken to people who have been in therapy for up to 10+ yrs and still dead and broken! This i knew was not &#8220;GETTING BETTER&#8221;. I have known for some time that therapy will bring all the garbage to the surface but it did not heal a person. I am an energy healer and i know about energy and it&#8217;s effect&#8217;s for quite sometime. I knew that in order to heal the energetic system, well left over negative energy had to be removed and replaced by possitive energy. Now with the explanation of the peptides i can have a mental picture in my mind as to what is happening in my body and my mind. The only way to heal from any trauma is on an energetic level, period. Very few want to beleive this however, i would not be alive today had i not started to release these negative thoughts (which are energy in motion)You are one of the only people that use energy methods to heal from trauma, there are more but they often take it to a very different place, which scares alot of people, when in truth it can be given to us through an easily understood method. Looking forward to your next video. Thank you. Love and light to you and everyone else who wants to feel alive again, or maybe for the first time. Blessings, Caylin</p>
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