Why do some mental health therapies fail? If a person's trauma does not flashbacks and berating introjects, traditional treatments that rely on narrative and imagery will not work. Not all suffering from narcissistic abuse is the same. Not all victims become survivors. Some will remain endurers. #TraumaRecovery #EmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #NeurodevelopmentalPsychology #aphantasia https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/narcissistic-abuse-c-ptsd-and-the?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Asensoria is the neurodevelopmental inability to experience a specific subset of human affective states. The asensoric individual is not affectively blunted, dissociated, or pathologically impaired. Rather, their emotional repertoire is structurally incomplete due to the non-formation of certain receptive emotional circuits during critical developmental windows.