Tag: reality distortion

Reality Distortion is the alteration, reframing, denial, contradiction, or manipulation of events, meanings, motives, or consequences in ways that make a person’s own perception increasingly difficult to trust.

Within the Captivity Lens, reality distortion may operate through gaslighting, coercive projection, selective retelling, contradictory messaging, interpretive dominance, or repeated replacement of the survivor’s account with a more powerful external narrative.

  • When The Architecture Moves Inside

    What Remains When External Access Ends Leaving a coercive environment and becoming internally free from it are not necessarily the same event. A relationship can end. A boundary can close. An institution can lose access. A person can physically leave.…