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People who've been through narcissistic abuse are often labeled as mentally ill and put on psychiatric medication they don't even need, when what they're really dealing with is complex PTSD from long-term emotional abuse. They've been gaslighted, smeared, and made to question their own reality, then cut off from the people who should support them because everyone thinks they're the unstable one. The manipulation runs so deep that some lose themselves completely, feeling hopeless to the point of suicide. And society just calls it mental illness instead of recognizing the severe trauma and abuse behind it.
Cath 🇨🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
One narcissistic pattern is expecting forgiveness to restore everything immediately while treating trust as something you owe rather than something they rebuild.
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Social anxiety is exhausting. you're perfectly fine alone, but around people, you overthink how you speak, look, act, where to look, and what they think of you. even a simple conversation becomes a mental battle you have to prepare yourself for.
Cath 🇨🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
You know what I miss?
Turning on something and having it just work. No registering on another device. No signing into an account. No downloading an app. Just plug it in and it does the thing it's supposed to do.
Cath 🇨🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
And you Americans don't subsidize our Healthcare either. We pay taxes Federally and Provincially for that. It isn't our fault you overpay insurance companies to screw you over. It's not perfect, but it's paid for by Canadians. You all don't subsidize any Canadian social program.
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We now know the identity of the service members who lost their lives.
Pte Aidan Goulding (North Vancouver, BC)
Pte Shaun Farrell (Prince Albert, SK)
Pte Hayden Lykkemark (Langley, BC)
Sgt Morgan Wong, (Edmonton, AB)
39 other Canadian Armed Forces members are injured, many seriously. Grief is being felt by families and friends across Canada - and beyond.
As Prime Minister Carney said: "Those we lost and who were injured were training to defend Canada. To serve Canada.
Now Canada serves them.
We will be there for their families for as long as they need. We will care for the injured through every step of their recovery. And we will stand by the women and men of our Armed Forces as they bear the weight of this loss."
Cath 🇨🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS STORE MANAGERS, BUT I'M DONE.
I just pulled $140 worth of groceries off the shelf, carried them across the store, scanned every item myself at a self-checkout kiosk, bagged every single item, and tapped my own card.
Then the machine screen flipped around and asked:
"Would you like to round up your total to donate to corporate charity?"
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
You eliminated 12 cashier jobs to cut corporate payroll, forced me to provide free manual labor for 15 minutes just to buy food, and now you want ME to fund your tax write-off?
If I'm doing the work of an employee, give me a 10% self-checkout discount at checkout.
Stop asking for tips and donations at kiosks where I did 100% of the work.
Cath 🇨🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
When I wake up after an accidental nap and think I've missed the bus to school but it's Sunday and I'm 60.
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Today Canadians stand with the Canadian armed forces , families and citizens of Wainwright.
Stay strong. We are with you.
Cath 🇨🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
The manipulation never sounded like manipulation. It sounded like concern, honesty, or a joke. That's why it took me so long to name. These are the sentences I heard most often, and what they were actually doing.
1) 'You're too sensitive.' It made my reaction the problem. What I was reacting to disappeared from the conversation.
2) 'That never happened.' It denied something I remembered clearly. Said often enough, it made me doubt my own memory.
3) 'I'm only trying to help.' It reframed control as care. My boundary became ingratitude.
4) 'After everything I've done for you.' It turned the relationship into a ledger. Any limit I set became a debt I was failing to pay.
5) 'They're just jealous of what we have.' It recast the people who might have asked questions as threats. One at a time, they became problems.
6) 'You're making me do this.' It handed me responsibility for their behavior. Their action became my fault.
7) 'I'm sorry you feel that way.' It sounded like an apology. It wasn't one. It apologized for my feelings, not for what caused them.
None of these sentences were loud. That's what made them work. Learning to hear what they did, instead of what they said, is where I started to see clearly.
