Originally Posted by
DestinyM 
someone who had so completely bought into her gaslighter’s negative view of her that she could no longer access her true self. To some extent, Melanie was right: She had actually become the helpless, incompetent person that her gaslighter kept telling her she was.
This is/was me! I'm still rediscovering who I actually am now. My memory isn't terrible. I'm not stupid and incompetent. Now I just have to work on all the other things I believe about myself and see if they are actually true!