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7 Easy Steps to Break the Trauma Bond and Ditch the Narcissist for Good

How to Get Away From the Narcissist When Your Mind Won’t Let You.

Honor Payne
4 min readJun 17, 2024
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If you’re ever going to get away from the narcissist you must break the trauma bond, whether you’re trying to escape physically, psychologically or both.

Today I’m going to explain what the trauma bond is, how it is formed and the seven steps to destroy it forever.

What Is a Trauma Bond?

The trauma bond is a best described as an emotional and psychological prison for your mind that the narcissist creates with their erratic behaviour and abuse, and then uses to control and manipulate you with.

Trauma bonding happens when the victim of the narcissist suffers cruelty while being told they are loved, because the love they receive is turned on and off.

They are given the justification that it is for their own benefit, and they are later shown love.

According to mainstream psychology, this has the effect of gradually eroding your ego boundaries, particularly if you are physically confined to that place.

In psychology, it is accepted knowledge that this occurs. And it begins to infantilize the individual.

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Honor Payne
Honor Payne

Written by Honor Payne

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