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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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · 3d
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · 3d
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · 26d
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Sep 13
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Sep 11
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.
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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Sep 5
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 31
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 30
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 28
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 27
Mirrors don’t create the self—they create the ego.

#DevelopmentalPsychology #Psychoanalysis #OntologyOfMind #InfantDevelopment
Amirroring
A Counter-Ontology of Development
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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 26
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 25
“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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 24
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 23
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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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 22
Panmodal Aphantasia
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Panmodal Aphantasia
The Aformation of Internal Simulation Across All Modalities
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Neuropsychology Research @cristinagherghel.bsky.social · Aug 22
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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