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

Anti–self-help meets the philosophy of despair in an aphantasic mind, crippled by panic attacks and social phobias. A will to power confronts the absurdity of life’s randomness and the trauma of systemic abuse. #Aphantasia #PanicAttacks #SocialAnxiety #MentalHealthAwareness https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/why-motivation-culture-fails-those?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true