The Help That Breaks: Covert Narcissistic Abuse, Coercive Control, Complex PTSD, and Anhedonia through Aphantasia and Anauralia is a deeply personal story of the devastation caused by unsolicited advice, toxic guidance, and manipulative power dynamics in abusive relationships.
It examines how covert sociopathic strategies dismantle personal boundaries, reverse victim and abuser roles, and contribute to mental and physical conditions such as depression, C-PTSD, anhedonia, endometriosis, vestibulitis, and asexuality—viewed through the lens of aphantasia and anauralia.
This book is as raw documentation of psychological
control, shedding light on how ongoing disrespect, devaluation, and
invalidation disrupt the intricate balance of emotional, physical, and
spiritual health, leaving behind lasting trauma.
The following text is the book description from Amazon, where you can purchase The Help That Breaks:
How do you mourn a self slaughtered by a thousand
papercuts?
A first-hand account of the devastation caused by
unsolicited advice, toxic micromanagement, and oppressive power dynamics within
abusive relationships. It examines how covert sociopathic tactics
exploit personal boundaries, invert the roles of abuser and victim, and trigger
psychological and physical conditions such as:
• depression
• complex PTSD
• anhedonia
• endometriosis
• vestibulitis
• asexuality
—all explored through the neurodivergent lenses of aphantasia
and anauralia.
This hybrid memoir stands as forensic
survivor literature—a psychological testimony dissecting
how chronic disrespect, insidious devaluation, and persistent
invalidation don't merely wound, but reconstruct identity at
the synaptic level.
A sort of trauma that outlives memory, outlives the body,
outlives those who just meant well.
The Help That Breaks gives voice to those surrounded by narcissistic controllers who rewrite reality to maintain power.
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"Silence is not the absence of sound. It is the absence of entry."
