From Trauma to Failed Dissociation to Psychosis

Childhood trauma and adversity (ACE): the failure cascade, progression: splitting, dissociation, psychosis.
Dissociation is defense against trauma:
Forgetting the traumatic events (amnesia)
Denying external reality (derealization)
Boundary of self/world: denying one’s existence in the traumatic setting (depersonalization)
When dissociation fails, the only 2 other options:
Boundary of self/world: denying internal reality by externalizing it (dissociative internal voices psychosis, bizarre and nonbizarre delusions including paranoia, referential ideation, erotomania, and grandiosity, DID, narcissism, identity confusion, identity alteration, flashbacks) thus negating capacity to feel pain. These are all post-traumatic conditions, exactly like BPD.
Rejecting life (and afterlife for suicides) by becoming one with the world (eliminating boundary of self/world).
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[@charlie5731]

i’ve never seen anyone in psychology be able to put my experience into words step by step like this. i was highly dissociative for years as a teenager in a volatile/hostile environment, and as soon as my escape plan/sanctuary failed at the peak of the trauma, i started having delusions and hallucinations. additionally, i can’t remember who made a talk on this theory, but i’ve heard that originally schizophrenia and disassociative identity disorder were conceived of as the same disorder.

[@angel.m23]

Доктор Сэм! Вы самый лучший в теме нарциссизма, только благодаря Вашим глубоким лекциям я поняла в чём была проблема. (Про скриншот и создание идеальной, влюбление в себя ложной, и постоянный абьюз меня настоящей). Спасибо Вам огромное! Стало легко и спокойно! Улыбаюсь теперь себе каждую минуту❤

[@wiser1254]

This is so revealing and helpful! Your videos have been so helpful and informative to me for several years now, and you continue to provide such great insights! Thank you!

[@thewatcher7823]

If holy means whole, the structure of society has rejected wholeness in a person by requiring the individuals have their spirit broken into pieces, like a horse is broken to be ridden, so each person that brings the correct splitoff of self to school or work, or whatever they have to do to justify their right to live in society. This means society by design rejects the holiness. I don't imagine the kingdom of heaven is a place that requires any of this.

[@mim.r4499]

Sam, I love your videos, to the point, sense of humor, and very exact data, thanks❤

[@planetearth26]

Komplizierte Sache, gut erklärt, Danke Herr Professor ❤

[@c.m.r.1745]

Hallo! Thanks for your videos. My ex partner is an u dercover psycho. One of the very dark triade, inclusive being proud of being a criminal. He FAKES psychosis anytime he wants to commit a crimen and he therefore gets rude of justice. I wonder how these people can be outsude being so dangerous. Its a sign of the psychopatic matrix where we are in. They have the rights. Me as victim have nothing.

[@Lion-rf8xi]

Wow wow wow. The women I met in a mental hospital meets that description very closely. Although I'd say as a women she was able to get away with lots by manipulating people to her will. I have autism and lots of childhood trauma. I think she went to the hospital just to shop🥶. I think she had this child like injured quality she would flash with her baby blues and people would almost just go "oh my you poor girl." She had a severe abuse history I mean severe! I was the hero there to save the abused child. I didn't know she was their to destroy her evil father her projection. After her I ended up in and out of psych wards being told basically that never happened! Any of it like I made up what happened or I was delusional. Multiple diagnosis from docs who spent ten minutes talking to me! Insane I met a sociopath in mental health and mental health only reinforced the gaslight amplified it! I wonder how they are outside also.

[@brianadams3189]

I was going to as if the externalization of negative introjects could lead to paranoia and referential ideation but you pretty well covered that. Extremely interesting perspective of a dissociative tree from which many branches lead to many worlds. A form of Ygdrassil crossing the planes of internal and external existence.

[@justinmatisewski1285]

Professor, is there a chance that a 40 year old female malignant narcissist could project very vile sexual abuse allegations of her own 4 year old daughter onto the father of the child when in fact it was in fact her own experience 30 years prior as a 4 year old child with her own father that the sexual abuse actually happened? (This story actually happened to me via Department of Child Services. Very very disturbing). DCF ruled unsupported and I can't help but think this was mother's way of trying to get rid of the trauma and throw it onto her own daughter/husband.

[@ririimari]

This is why I experienced derealization and depersonalization in the years preceding my psychotic episode. I appreciate the thoroughly communicated breakdown of the processes involved.

[@alexander_b132]

Thank you!

[@test5095]

Thank you

[@ejenkins4711]

Mental wealth bigjins when you find your inner door. CGJ 🦍⌚✈️

[@humbertosouza9013]

Listening to Proofessor Vaknin after having played Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a videogame that claims had resorted to psichosys specialists and psichosys patients. The protagonist hears differents voices, her introjects. Nice to 'blend' Professor's video with the game experience. Let us see what the second videogame Hellblade 2 has in shop. Greetings

[@weronikawyszkowska3345]

Amazing explanation 👏

[@MargaretMccafferty-j4s]

Thanks mr Vaknin, I am a caregiver to my six month old son so I hope to be good mummy in its fullest possible sense. Many people think its just material care but it's sooo important to understand psychological development and the experience of unconditional love. Strange I was just talking about the impact of adult behaviours around a child ie shouting,verbal abuse or dysfunctional adults around a developing psyche, my understanding of this in tespect to myself and others is of huge importance. Very synchronistic to hear your video that sounds like an addition to the conversation I just had. Have you heard of rupert sheldrakes morphic resonance theory? We might be more connected to those who influence our minds than we think..

[@samvaknin]

Morphic resonance is another piece of pseudo-scientific nonsense, one of many, alas.

[@thejewelledchalice-joolswi9563]

So what is an event where suicidal ideation briefly occurs, then a really brief psychotic "voice", then an acceptance of the external and internal state so medical treatment is sought because the person knows "something is wrong here", all occurring within a 10 minute time slot?

[@annadoggett4792]

Would you tell us about what happens to a person after a failed suicide attempt? How does the response to the ultimate failure may present in different types/coping strategies and what changes may they experience?

[@MargaretMccafferty-j4s]

Very, very interesting Dr Vaknin.

[@angelliquephillips1617]

Can you recover from this?

[@samvaknin]

Absolutely. Many trauma therapies are very successful.

[@angelliquephillips1617]

​@@samvaknin Thank you for your response. This is reassuring.

[@lindsaybagwell7988]

Can you say which exact modalities of trauma therapy may be more successful?​@@samvaknin

[@presiannovakov7128]

If one has been diagnosed BPD by their therapist, but suspects themselves to be a covert NPD, how could they "check"

[@samvaknin]

Seek a second opinion from a qualified, trained, and experienced diagnostician. Also search the comorbidities playlist.

[@presiannovakov7128]

Thank you, will check them out

[@arnoldcappelletto3236]

I was extremely vigilant of my childrens wishes and safety at playgrounds, and i w ended up being the sandman. That raised awesomeness of some hidden negative behaviors that were visible though play. And i was yea somehow free when we separated as a family. And allways kept a 🐷 bank full of coins for their twoo weak visitations. 49 59dollars. That i know that they would use the vending machine's at their school.at back then 30 cents brought smiles to their faces.still why did it take a monetary bribe . A void i could not see through 😢

[@JFKMS]

Where would Cotards fits within/without this framework?

[@pauliepaul500]

Borderline switches between the two ?

[@samvaknin]

Yes. Watch the BPD playlist.

[@xL4RG0x]

That's really creepy, but I think that was the case with my ex gf.