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Shrink4Men - Dr. Tara Palmatier

@shrink4men.bsky.social

Helping men in relationships with abusive women since 2009. Clinical Psychologist, egalitarian, INTJ, carnivore.

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Image of a woman’s upper back with the word “empath” tattooed across her shoulders in cursive, flowery script — a visual cue of virtue signaling and pseudo-spirituality. Text below reads: “Empath tattoo — Run, Forrest, Run!” followed by “Sometimes they come with warning labels. I’d pay attention to that if I were you.” Created by Shrink4Men.

Image of a woman’s upper back with the word “empath” tattooed across her shoulders in cursive, flowery script — a visual cue of virtue signaling and pseudo-spirituality. Text below reads: “Empath tattoo — Run, Forrest, Run!” followed by “Sometimes they come with warning labels. I’d pay attention to that if I were you.” Created by Shrink4Men.

“Empath tattoo — Run, Forrest, Run!”

Sometimes they come with warning labels.
I'd pay attention to that if I were you.

#Shrink4Men #Help4Men #empathlife #EmpathEnergy #empath #BPD #NPD #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #narcissist

30.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this why the rapture was trending on Twitter a few weeks ago?

16.10.2025 06:24 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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W
T
A
F
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I want out.

16.10.2025 06:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy | Official Trailer | Netflix

Lesbian relationships also have the highest intimate partner violenceand divorce rates.

Coincidence?

Side note: Jim Jefferies new special is hilarious. I've seen him live a couple times and he does a great show.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=078p...

14.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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He says: “I don’t need a woman! I’ve got UberEats, porn & the boys.”
You laugh.

She says: “I don’t need a man! I’ve got wine, a dog & my own money.”
You clap.

But let’s be honest. It’s the same narcissism in different packaging.

🚩 #RedFlag
#DoNotDate

05.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Laughing woman playfully holding walnuts over her eyes. Caption: "If she wants to move in by date two, she's not in love—she's probably nuts. Know the difference. Shrink4Men helps men escape narcissistic abuse and high-conflict relationships. The More You Know."

Laughing woman playfully holding walnuts over her eyes. Caption: "If she wants to move in by date two, she's not in love—she's probably nuts. Know the difference. Shrink4Men helps men escape narcissistic abuse and high-conflict relationships. The More You Know."

Embroider this on a throw pillow in your Man Cave:

If a woman says yes to a second date, she’s probably interested in you. If a woman is ready to move in with you by the second date, she’s probably nuts.©

The More You Know!

#RedFlags #DatingAdviceForMen

23.07.2025 22:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can’t reason with a moving goalpost. And you can't fix crazy.

The only winning move is not to play. /3

#BPDBehavior #MaleMentalHealth #BPDRelationships #GaslightingRecovery #EmotionalAbuseRecovery #FalseAccusations #MenToo #ToxicEx #Shrink4Men #NarcissisticAbuse

18.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now you’re a narcissist who “makes her do all the emotional labor.”
The real emotional labor?
Being expected to co-regulate the emotions of a grown-ass adult.

This isn’t communication. It’s coercive control wrapped in TikTok mental health influencer therapy-speak. /2

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Your BPD-NPD wife accuses you of cheating. You prove you’re not.
She gets more upset because you didn’t validate her feelings.
Can't you see why she feels you're a duplicitous scumbag?!

[Yes, I understand you haven't done what she's accused you of. In BPD-Land it matters not.] /1

18.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Verified.

12.07.2025 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Toxic ex shows up in court with lies, smears, and ego fluffing.
You show up with emails, tax returns, and receipts.
Guess who gets called “controlling”?
Narcissists don’t argue facts.
And they experience facts as attacks.
#Shrink4Men #FactsAreNotAbuse #FamilyCourt #TheMoreYouKnow

20.06.2025 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If a narcissist narcissists (or a borderline borderlines) in the forest and no one’s around to hear it…
Do they make a sound?

Who cares?!

You're not there to hear it.

Become one with the No Contact.
Namaste 😈

#Shrink4Men #NoContact #ClusterBFree #NarcissisticAbuseRecovery #Help4Men

19.06.2025 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This isn’t “compromise.” It’s preemptive compliance.
A lot of men don’t get called out, they just slowly disappear.

And the reward for that?
Being told you’re still not doing enough.

Reclaiming your time, space, and sense of self isn’t selfish. It’s survival.

#ReclaimYourself

16.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A man stands holding a basketball, looking away as if packing boxes in a home. Overlay text reads: “Do you comply in advance? Did you give up friends, family, sports, working out, hobbies, or pets because she demanded or guilted you into it? Or did you preemptively fold, just to avoid the inevitable emotional shitstorm?” The image conveys the quiet isolation and self-abandonment men often experience in emotionally abusive relationships.

A man stands holding a basketball, looking away as if packing boxes in a home. Overlay text reads: “Do you comply in advance? Did you give up friends, family, sports, working out, hobbies, or pets because she demanded or guilted you into it? Or did you preemptively fold, just to avoid the inevitable emotional shitstorm?” The image conveys the quiet isolation and self-abandonment men often experience in emotionally abusive relationships.

Ever give up your entire life to “keep the peace”—before there was even a fight?

She didn’t have to tell you to quit game night, cancel the gym, or ghost your family.

You already knew:
Resistance = Punishment
Being yourself = Losing love

#Help4Men #EmotionalAbuseRecovery

16.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Father’s Day!

To all the dads showing up, even when they’re shut out, smeared, or silenced, you matter.

Extra virtual hugs today to the fathers fighting alienation. Your pain is real, and you're not alone.

15.06.2025 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Couples Therapy with a BPD: 8 Manipulation Tactics This article is the follow-up to BPD Ambush: How Borderlines Weaponize Therapy. It’s a real-life story of what happened when Goldie, recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, discove…

He thought he booked a solo therapy session.
She thought it was the perfect time to stage a redemption tour.

Spoiler: It wasn’t therapy.

It was a 53-minute highlight reel of BPD manipulation tactics:
👉 tinyurl.com/2xm7dd5v
#BPD #MensMentalHealth

16.04.2025 02:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Quid Pro Hoes.

Or is it ho's?

12.04.2025 17:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kidfluencing and sharenting are child abuse.

10.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

That's a big ass bowl of WORD SALAD.

06.04.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it's about the gay penguin book.

03.04.2025 15:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It sure does.

02.04.2025 18:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gold-plated poop with a rainbow starburst mimicking the “The More You Know” PSA aesthetic. Text reads: “The best con artists don’t just lie to you — they get you to lie to yourself. Narcissists and borderlines do the same. In the end, the most damaging lies are the ones you told yourself so you could justify staying.”

Gold-plated poop with a rainbow starburst mimicking the “The More You Know” PSA aesthetic. Text reads: “The best con artists don’t just lie to you — they get you to lie to yourself. Narcissists and borderlines do the same. In the end, the most damaging lies are the ones you told yourself so you could justify staying.”

They didn’t gaslight you the whole time.
At some point, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 started doing it 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

Narcissists & borderlines train you to lie to 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 —
So you’ll justify staying.

And it's another way they get you to do the work for them.
#narcissist #gaslighting #BPD #NPD #conartists

02.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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BPD Ambush: How Borderlines Weaponize Therapy Many clients wrongly believe that setting boundaries with a borderline or narcissistic partner will magically fix the relationship. It won’t. Nevertheless, boundaries are essential—I encourage ever…

Think therapy will fix your BPD ?
Victor did. Because his BPD wife said so.
Then she hijacked his solo session, accused him (again) of abuse, and smiled while doing it.

This is what weaponized therapy looks like.
Read how that went 👉 tinyurl.com/4nz4cdtk
##EmotionalAbuse

27.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
A woman in a blue shirt makes an "L" sign on her forehead and points mockingly at the viewer. Behind her, a large pile of children’s clothes, toys, and sports gear is stacked haphazardly. The text reads: "Your ex might be an asshole... If they get off on petty custody games like 'accidentally' never returning the kids’ clothes, toys, and school or sports gear—until it's outgrown, trashed, or useless—just to waste your time, money, and sanity. Relatable?" Below the text, the Shrink4Men logo appears with the tagline: "Helping Men Break Free from Abusive Relationships Since 2009.

A woman in a blue shirt makes an "L" sign on her forehead and points mockingly at the viewer. Behind her, a large pile of children’s clothes, toys, and sports gear is stacked haphazardly. The text reads: "Your ex might be an asshole... If they get off on petty custody games like 'accidentally' never returning the kids’ clothes, toys, and school or sports gear—until it's outgrown, trashed, or useless—just to waste your time, money, and sanity. Relatable?" Below the text, the Shrink4Men logo appears with the tagline: "Helping Men Break Free from Abusive Relationships Since 2009.

Your ex might be an asshole...

If they get off on petty custody games like "accidentally" never returning the kids' clothes, toys, and school or sports gear—until it's outgrown, trashed, or useless—just to waste your time, money, and sanity.

Relatable?

18.03.2025 21:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Narcissists and social media—it’s Scarface, but with mountains of Likes instead of cocaine.

They endlessly chase their next ego bump, snorting lines of validation, and getting high on their own supply—of attention.

Just Say Hell No.

#JustSayHellNo #Narcissists #SocialMediaAddiction #Shrink4Men

06.03.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hilarious.

27.02.2025 21:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A black-and-white cartoon shows a woman standing next to a police officer, looking into a large mirror that reflects multiple versions of herself in different emotional states. One version wears a party hat and holds a bottle, another turns away with a dismissive gesture, one appears sad and withdrawn, another looks distressed, and one is overly cheerful with arms wide open. The caption reads: "Which version of yourself was the one who sabotaged the relationship?

A black-and-white cartoon shows a woman standing next to a police officer, looking into a large mirror that reflects multiple versions of herself in different emotional states. One version wears a party hat and holds a bottle, another turns away with a dismissive gesture, one appears sad and withdrawn, another looks distressed, and one is overly cheerful with arms wide open. The caption reads: "Which version of yourself was the one who sabotaged the relationship?

Community Note: They're all the same version. Happy Friday!

*BPD / NPD isn’t a tumor you can excise and then return to LoveBomb Land. The "nice" version and the raging version are the same person—just in different regulation states and manipulation modes (i.e., carrot or stick).

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When you care enough to send the very best...

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

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