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Volume 7: Rebuilding
You got out. The relationship is over. So why does it feel like you are falling apart now?
This is the paradox of recovery: the collapse often comes after the escape. Your psyche held on under siege, mobilizing everything it had to survive. Now that the danger has passed, it finally lets go. And the aftermath is brutal.
This seventh volume guides you through the most disorienting phase of healing—when freedom feels like free fall, when relief turns into depression, and when your own mind seems to betray you.
Drawing on 35 years of clinical experience, psychoanalyst Pascal Couderc names what so many survivors experience in silence: the grief, the flashbacks, the dissociation, the relapses—and the slow, nonlinear path back to yourself.
In this volume, you will discover:
- Why you mourn someone who hurt you—and what you are really grieving
- The psychology of post-control depression: when the lights go out
- How post-traumatic stress manifests: hypervigilance, triggers, and body memory
- Dissociative states: why you feel unreal, and how to come back
- Relapses: why they happen, and why they are not failure
- How the nervous system heals—and why it cannot be rushed
- The signs of true recovery: small, almost imperceptible, but real
This book does not promise a quick fix. It offers something more honest: a map of the territory you are crossing. The nights will be long. But they will not last forever.
Volume 7 of the 8-volume series The Narcissistic Abuser: What Every Survivor Needs to Know.
