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Back to EpisodesFlawless: NPD, ASPD, STPD and Inter-Familial Childhood Torture
Description
TRIGGER WARNING: CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
In this episode, we meet Flawless, a young woman grappling with the effects of an intense lack of safety in childhood.
Flawless outlines the events leading to her formal diagnoses and shares a few reflections on how she is affected by the guardedness of others, revealing some of challenges of maintaining identity integrity when we haven't had the upbringing to develop it fully.
The discussion also touches on some cultural influences around levels of emotional expression, drawing contrasts between various cultural backgrounds
Flawless also starts to introduce us to some of the events which impacted her childhood., and the episode ends with a brief description of the core criteria for Schizotypal Personality Disorder.