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Charlie Blakely’s inspiration for 'The Lost Child - a story of recovery from Narcissistic Abuse,' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW2GFP57 was borne out of her frustration with the limitations of the UK National Health Service.

She experienced road blocks at every turn, during her search for mental health treatment, eventually resulting in her discovering effective therapy outside the NHS. Now, as a mental health worker for the NHS, Charlie can see the challenges facing patients, from the inside.

The NHS avoids diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder within primary and secondary mental health settings, despite the devastating impact this disorder has on victims of narcissistic abuse. NPD is the perennial elephant in the room. The taboo, Charlie Blakely’s inspiration for 'The Lost Child - a story of recovery from Narcissistic Abuse,' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW2GFP57 was borne out of her frustration with the limitations of the UK National Health Service.

She experienced road blocks at every turn, during her search for mental health treatment, eventually resulting in her discovering effective therapy outside the NHS. Now, as a mental health worker for the NHS, Charlie can see the challenges facing patients, from the inside.

The NHS avoids diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder within primary and secondary mental health settings, despite the devastating impact this disorder has on victims of narcissistic abuse. NPD is the perennial elephant in the room. The taboo, embarrassing disorder that nobody wants to mention for fear of being accused of being unsympathetic or judgemental.

Unless a formal diagnosis is given, (which almost never happens), mental health support staff must somehow effectively support the recovery of narcissistic patients, who are unwittingly trapped in a self-perpetuating negative abusive cycle. A never changing pattern. Never learning and never growing. These patients are denied the experience of honest courageous interaction and treatment, because it is required that all around them must deny the reality of their disorder, however obvious it may be.

Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is more widely recognised. However, its link to NPD; and it’s occurrence as a trauma based response to long term exposure to NPD, is again, a taboo subject. In my experience, the initial treatment offered for CPTSD was 6 weekly sessions of CBT. (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.) A therapy designed to change negative thinking patterns. An effective tool for some mental health issues, but to recover from a life time of mind control and emotional abuse?

Charlie shares her experience of an effective trauma therapy that is not available on the NHS. This therapy resulted in her being able to throw away her anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications. As a result, she felt compelled to share her journey of healing, after realising how impenetrable the wall of silence is within NHS mental health services, regarding the truth of both of these diagnoses. Charlie faced a choice: to stay caught in the web, playing a role, becoming part of the problem, or to form part of the solution. This book, Charlie’s first, is an attempt to do just that. Hopefully she did it successfully.

She still supports others through her work in the NHS, but does so from a place of fearless honesty. Choosing to live by the motto – ‘If we choose to live with integrity, a pathway opens up before us, allowing and supporting us to fulfil our unique divine purpose. So, always have the courage to stand in truth!’

Charlie Blakely penned her autobiography under a pseudonym in order to protect the identity of her siblings. The ‘lost child’ refers to the role a narcissistic parent often assigns the quietest, most sensitive child.

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Charlie Blakely's Blog

Charlie Blakely isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

: The deafening silence regarding NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) diagnosis within the NHS

I decided to start this blog as a follow on from my book. A book I wrote to help victims of narcissistic abuse. I wrote the book due to the limitations I found working for the NHS, (where I’d been a mental health worker for 4 years.)

I was excited, full of passion and enthusiasm when I started. I was looking forward to finally being able to create something positive out of the struggles from my pa Read more of this blog post »

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