Traditional therapy, which relies heavily on visualization, imagination, narrative restructuring, or "mind-based" dissociation techniques, is rendered structurally useless. For the Panmodal Aphantasic suffering from Complex PTSD, the path to healing requires a physiological mandate.

Panmodal Aphantasia is not a shield. It is a structural vulnerability that guarantees a divergent, embodied, and relentless form of suffering. It defies the purpose of a coping mechanism because it amplifies pressure. It defies the purpose of a defense mechanism because it enforces exposure. To call this condition an advantage is to mistake the inability to scream for the absence of pain.

What if the very condition lauded as a shield against trauma is, in fact, a cage that magnifies it? My research dismantles the myth that aphantasia—the inability to create mental imagery—offers protection from the wounds of abuse. • Flashbacks are the mind reliving the past. • Fleshbacks are the body never stopping its presentation of agony. #Aphantasia #TraumaResearch #CPTSD #MentalHealth https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/the-proof-that-aphantasia-magnifies?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Those who defend a murderer as having "made a mistake" aren’t showing compassion—they are confessing kinship. Over five decades of observation and record-keeping have left me deeply horrified by humanity. #childneglect #empathycrisis #internetdesensitization https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/the-child-in-the-car-a-study-in-moral?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Selfhood exists where no mirror has ever landed. Awareness unfolds silently, autopoietically, beyond relational reach. #humandevelopment #psychology #consciousness https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/the-trinary-model-of-development?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

When the language says you adapted, what did you actually do? Did you survive, or just didn't die? #AdaptationMyth #TraumaNarrative #Adultomorphism #Psychology https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/against-the-myth-of-adaptation-when?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Interacting with AI can feel eerily similar to talking to someone with narcissistic traits—patterns of misunderstanding, invalidation and abuse can emerge without intent. #Narcissism #AIInteraction #Gaslighting #Abuse

Cât costă cu adevărat o carte publicată? Nu vorbesc de bani, ci de energie, timp, sănătate. Scriitorii independenți nu doar scriu — ei editează, promovează, răspund, speră. Dar este oare totul în zadar? Am publicat un articol despre epuizarea cronică — poate te ajută să te simți mai puțin singur. #burnout #scriitorindependent #creatoriindependenți #viatacreativă https://publicagratuitcarti.blogspot.com/2025/09/publica-acum-plateste-mai-tarziu-burnout-ul-scriitorului-independent.html