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cristinagherghel.bsky.social
Neuropsychology Research
@cristinagherghel.bsky.social
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Sharing original insights on topics such as: aphantasia, mental health, identity, divergence, trauma, personality disorders—including narcissistic abuse. Advancing interdisciplinary frameworks in developmental psychology, philosophy of mind, and beyond.
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We live amid the ruins of moral humanity—utterly bankrupt and falling apart. You feel it too. There’s no turning back. We search the stars for signs of life while failing to protect our own children. I am horrified. #moralcollapse #humanitylost #empathycrisis #societaldecay #ethicalbankruptcy
The Child in the Car: A Study in Moral Extinction
On the Death of Empathy and the Rise of Hedonihilism
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November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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We live in a world that worships images and performance. But thought—and trauma—don’t need an inner movie to exist. This essay shows what happens when pain becomes structure instead of spectacle.
#willtopower #nietzsche #aphantasia #traumaliterature
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I Tried to Heal Until It Killed Me
The Body That Outlived Every Cure: Nietzsche’s Will-to-Power
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November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Not every mind is shaped by mirrors; some awareness arises silently, independently, unseen.
#humandevelopment #psychology #consciousness #philosophyofmind #amirroring
The Trinary Model of Development: Mirroring, Distorted Mirroring and Amirroring
The autopoietic genesis of subjectivity without relational input.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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What it means to exist without gain, without choice, without the illusion of purpose.
Against the Myth of Adaptation: When Survival Becomes a Misreading of Existence
A reflection on how the language of adaptation erases insidious coercion.
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October 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Interacting with AI can feel eerily similar to talking to someone with narcissistic traits—patterns of misunderstanding, invalidation and abuse can emerge without intent.
#Narcissism #AI #Gaslighting #Abuse
Talking to a Narcissist, Talking to ChatGPT: When Communication is Impossible
Over decades of enduring systemic abuse and years of studying narcissism, psychopathy, and other Cluster B personality disorders, I noticed something terrifying: talking to them is like talking to a w...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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
Why Motivation Culture Fails Those with Aphantasia and Chronic Despair
The Damage of Universal Healing Advice on Trauma Survivors
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September 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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We live in an era where confidence is perceived as an asset, even more so than competence. It's a fascinating social phenomenon – this collective belief in self-aggrandizement.
#SelfAwareness #SelfEsteem #Mindset #RealityCheck

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A single white flower growing from a crack in dark rock, symbolizing quiet strength and grounded self-worth.
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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You're Not Broken, You're Under Permanent Siege: A New Model for Collapse - What defines the limits of endurance? The sheer magnitude and continuity of catastrophic, external abuse.
#Neuroplasticity #StressResilience #Neuroscience #ChronicStress #TraumaRecovery
#OriginalResearch
You're Not Broken, You're Under Permanent Siege: A New Model for Collapse
On Aneurothymia Spectrum and Ontological Metabolic Exhaustion Syndrome
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September 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Red flags, gaslighting, fantasy, delusions, and grandiosity: the hallmarks of narcissism. But can they coexist with vulnerability, eccentricity, and incel-type entitlement? #DSM-5-TR
#PersonalityDisorderComorbidity
#ClinicalPsychology #Psychopathology
#SchizoidPersonalityDisorder
The Borderland Triad: Schizoid-Schizotypal Narcissist
Case-Based Examination of DSM-5-TR Overlap Between Cluster A and Cluster B Personality Disorders
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August 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Why are some people trapped in a never-ending cycle of pain and depletion?
The breakdown of key chemical pathways accelerates systemic collapse and unrelenting stress. #HealthPsychology #Trauma #MentalHealth #ChronicPain #Endometriosis
Trauma, Abuse and Endometriosis in OMES
Aneurothymic Aformation of Serotonergic, Dopaminergic, and Oxytocinergic Circuits Hyperactivating the HPA Axis and Driving Systemic Depletion
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August 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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From Blogspot archives to Substack: discover original research, aphantasic writing, and concepts in psychology, #philosophy, and mind. #TraumaWriting #NeurodevelopmentalResearch #PersonalityDisorders
Crossing Over: Blogspot to Substack for Original Neuropsychologic Research
My journey from Blogspot to Substack: decades of research, aphantasic writing, and original frameworks on human development reaching readers directly.
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August 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Mirrors don’t create the self—they create the ego.

#DevelopmentalPsychology #Psychoanalysis #OntologyOfMind #InfantDevelopment
Amirroring
A Counter-Ontology of Development
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August 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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You can hear the applause, see the praise, recognize the pride it should produce, know that you deserve it—yet feel nothing inside. This is #Asensoria.
#SocialAnhedonia #AffectiveNeuroscience #MotivationAndReward #CognitiveArchitecture #CortisolDysregulation
If You Don’t Get High on Validation, You May Be on the Aneurothymia Spectrum—or Have Asensoria
Validation as a Universal Assumption
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August 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“Happiness is a choice” and “everything happens for a reason” are two of the most damaging pop-psychology tropes, forcing victims of abuse to retraumatize themselves. #Aphantasia #MentalHealthStudies #SuicidalIdeation #Trauma #PanicDisorder #HumanSuffering #AIinResearch
This Is Not a Story of Survival
Why I Publish Outside Peer Review
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August 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Everyone knows gaslighting. But few have words for its darker twin: veridical distortion. This essay introduces the concept and shows how manipulation produces trauma through either self-doubt or the shock of absurdity.
#VeridicalDistortion #Gaslighting #PsychologicalAbuse #Neuroscience
The Trauma of Gaslighting and Veridical Distortion
A New Lens on Internal Dissonance and External Contradiction in the Psychology of Abuse
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August 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Why do some mental health therapies fail? Not all suffering from narcissistic abuse is the same. Not all victims become survivors. Some will remain endurers.
#TraumaRecovery #EmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #NeurodevelopmentalPsychology #aphantasia
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Narcissistic Abuse, C-PTSD, and the Cartesian OMES of Aneurothymic Victims
How structural aformations create metabolic and ontological depletion under chronic trauma
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August 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Panmodal Aphantasia
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Panmodal Aphantasia
The Aformation of Internal Simulation Across All Modalities
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August 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The Psychopathology Report from an Aphantasic Researcher
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The Psychopathology Report from an Aphantasic Researcher | Cristina Gherghel | Substack
Original neurodevelopmental research forging new frameworks for understanding the interconnectedness of mental health, abuse, trauma, aphantasia, anhedonia, and beyond—into broader ontologies of human...
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August 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM