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Aimee Jex, Professional Counselor, Belize Medical Associates
"It is a phenomenon that people have been noticing and it has been having a ground swelling over the past 6 years there is a celebration of it by a committee, it is worldwide kind of thing that is being started and it is celebrated on June 1st. What we have to realize is that it is a form of emotional abuse and that is something in our psychology community when we talk about mental health it is something we want to bring to light, it is definitely something that needs to be discussed and this is a great platform to do so."

"Right now we have abuse, we have symptoms associated with abuse and right now what this is a syndrome that people have noticed that there are these multiple issues that come along with this type of relationship so it hasn't gotten to the point where there are many studies but maybe in a few years it is something that will come around."

"And something that you pointed out is that there is a pattern or interaction, she noticed that her partner had narcissism now this is something that we don't often discuss. This is a subsection that comes under personality disorders, now when we talk about someone with narcissism we talk about things like grandiosity, someone who is arrogant, someone who is manipulative, someone who always tries to get their way when we talk about narcissism it is a personality thing so it not something that can be taken away but the person can be more aware, the issue with narcissism is that when you have a narcissistic injury when it is something that goes not your way what happens is you kind of go in a shock and that is when you find out you have that narcissistic injury and that is normally when people seek therapy but that does not happen all the 5:22 time."

"But the end of the day what we really want to see is that these people are acknowledging that they are in this cycle of abuse and that they want to do something about it."