Possible that with the anatomical changes in your frontal lobe, in your prefrontal cortex, this Broca’s area also changes with the continued exposure to chronic stress. Broca’s area impacts your linguistic skills eventually, and because of the overall change in functioning, it becomes difficult for you to understand what you’re reading, to process it, to comprehend it, and to store it in the larger part of the brain. Stammering and stuttering could be other examples of the manifestation of the same brain trauma. Hippocampus is also of importance here; that is the part which is responsible for memory storage and consolidation. Meaning when you learn procedures, things, words, and so on, they get consolidated there, and your hippocampus processes them, sends them into long-term memory from short-term memory, and they become a part of your personality, which is how you become capable of accessing the prior learned knowledge at any time. With the shrinkage of memory consolidation and retrieval becomes difficult due to this hippocampus as well. Memory consolidation and retrieval become really difficult, and that leads to brain fog, not remembering things, not recalling events, difficulty thinking, and you know what I’m talking about.
All of this is to say narcissistic abuse is an unforgivable sin in my eyes because the narcissist doesn’t damage you financially, physically, and emotionally only. They damage your brain as well, and it’s a real thing. For these reasons, it’s extremely important for you and for those who support you to give you enough time, space, and healing resources to recover from this kind of life-altering trauma.
Neuroplasticity is a phenomenon in which the brain changes, creates new neural pathways, and basically heals. That is what I believe in as well. No matter what your age, your brain can heal. Because I know your question would be, how do I reverse the brain damage? The answer that I’m going to give you is a little bit surprising because you do nothing with the brain. The brain will heal as a byproduct of what you do with the body. You have to work with the body. What do you do with the body? You work on your nervous system, and you heal and regulate it.
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