How Self Mediates External and Internal Realities

The Self mediates between external and internal realities.
This rendering requires huge amounts of mental resources. When the Self is depleted owing to stress, it shuts off either external reality or internal reality, depending on the locus of the stressor.
When external reality is shut off, internal reality remains unadulterated (this is known as mental illness such as narcissism and psychosis). When internal reality is disabled, the results are dissociation and numbing.
 
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Never underestimate the unfiltered, prehistoric, pernicious influence of any and all introjects!

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This is absolutely fascinating and makes complete sense

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[@HUstudent123]

One of your best videos yet! My only question is… if you shut off the internal and, as you put it, psychologically die, what happens next? Would you grieve your own psychological death? Wouldn’t that then force you into a rebirth that is devoid of your own narcissism?

[@samvaknin]

Yes. Search the Mind playlist: narcissism is actually prolonged grief, for example.

[@user-np5sl7kh4o]

Wow. Thank you for this insight into internal and external realities. Strangely, I’ve experienced BOTH.to the extreme! As a child/adolescent, I went external to escape my abusive NPD mother and became an over achiever in both school and athletics (to the extreme and was very public and successful.) Now, at 58 years old, after a year long job with an NPD/Psychpathic client (older woman, mother figure.) Now, I’ve become agoraphobic - I don’t want to see anyone at all or do anything and am struggling to work. CPTSD. However, on the positive, I am trying to work through it and have discovered you Sam! Thank you so much🙏. Both you and Richard Grannon have helped me on my journey to discover and understand my mental illness and state of mind…Very interesting that the “self” resorted to both extreme external and internal responses to preserve itself🤔..Thanks again for your wonderful work and educating so many. Gratitude✨.

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[@SarahValia]

I have come across many individuals with poor memories, which makes me wonder whether memory retention plays a role in shaping perceptions of self. Interestingly, while they have labeled me as having a sharp memory, I am not entirely certain that attributing poor memory to a lack of self is a fair or accurate assessment.

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[@sharonmcclintock6727]

Sam if you have been dx'd with ptsd due to narcissistic abuse , and still have the abusers interject in your mind....you are "battling" outside and inside forces...would this explain "dissociation" during this time ? Your mind cannot " reconcile" the two?

[@samvaknin]

introjects, not interjects. Watch the NA Healing playlist.

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[@agnesemoro6157]

Bravo!! Grazie

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