Скачать или смотреть What abuse does to identity: El and Veccna explained

In Stranger Things, Eleven and Henry/Vecna represent two radically different post-abuse trajectories.
Eleven’s recovery is not driven by power, but by social mirrors — friendships, chosen family, romantic attachment, and the opportunity to occupy multiple identities (friend, daughter, peer). These roles allow gradual ego integration, until her sense of self becomes stable enough to walk away from the site of abuse.
Henry’s trajectory shows the opposite outcome. Prolonged social isolation, narrative control, and identity erosion leave him fused to a single abusive context (the Mind Flayer). When confronted with truth, he can recognize it — but cannot integrate it, because identity destabilization has already occurred.
Drawing from abuse psychology and early work on battered women’s syndrome, this video explores how coercive control fractures identity — and how recovery depends not on insight alone, but on restored relational context.
This is not about good vs evil.
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