A Labyrinth of Blogs
Across decades, I kept opening new blogs as my passion for writing about different subjects diversified. By 2025, I had created more than 120 blogs, some with up to 500 entries. Blogspot became a labyrinth of my thinking—a scattered library of experiments, observations, research notes, and long-form essays.
But writing does not stay in one container forever. It keeps moving, seeking the form that best sustains it. At 40, I also began publishing books—something I had wanted to do since I was 8. That shift marked not just a milestone, but a necessity: the step from fragments into longer architectures of thought.
The Weight of the AI Flood
Then came the rise of AI. My work was buried under mountains of texts created with artificial intelligence, promoted with aggressive marketing campaigns.
I am not resentful or envious. For years, I forced myself to learn marketing, but it has never been in my nature. I don’t have the inclination or the energy to perform or sell. My aphantasic mind understands the rules of the world: without visibility, my work cannot pay the bills. I have done my best to self-promote, but my best has always fallen short.
Why Substack
For that reason, I opened an account on Substack.
Substack is not a replacement for my blogs or my books. It is a continuation—running in parallel with both, alongside video content I have attempted a few times but set aside because of lack of energy and time. A day has 24 hours. For someone with divergent brain wiring, carrying decades of trauma, most of that time is spent simply trying to keep going. Still, I work between 12 and 18 hours each day.
At this stage, the need is absolute: I must earn from my work. Substack is part of that direction. It is not a luxury, a desire for recognition or an experiment—it is a platform chosen because it allows my writing to reach people directly, without algorithms, without the noise of platforms designed to dilute attention. It offers clarity: writing meets reader, nothing in between.
The Core of My Work
My work has always centered on the human condition—its fractures, its hidden structures, and its possibilities of coherence. Over the decades, I have written extensively on:
- Narcissistic abuse and trauma bonds
- Personality disorders across clusters A, B, and C
- Mood disorders, from depression to bipolar structures
- Complex trauma and C-PTSD
- Intergenerational trauma, and how pain and fragmentation pass from one generation to another
These subjects are not side notes—they are the terrain of lived human struggle. They remain a core strand of my neurodevelopmental and neuropsychologic research and writing from the aneurothymia lens.
New Directions in Neurodevelopment and Epistemology
Since 2024, my work has crystallized into a new focus: the architecture of mind and self as formed—or unformed—in infancy and childhood. I research and develop original theoretical frameworks in neurodevelopmental psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind and beyond.
These include:
The Aneurothymia Spectrum, a structural constellation of six aformations:- Panmodal Aphantasia
- Anauralia
- Asensoria
- Avalidia
- Asexuality
- Anhedonia
Areolationology, the study of isolation disguised as relational contact
Autopoiesis of the amirrored self, formation through internal organization in the absence of external reflection
Schrödinger Cognition, an epistemic stance that arises from aneurothymic structuring, where thought remains both within and outside conventional frames of knowledge
Panthropic Abuse, a term to designate forms of ontological harm that transcend individual, familial, or cultural limits
OMES - Ontological Metabolic Exhaustion Syndrome
These concepts mark out terrains left uncharted in psychology and philosophy. They are not revisions of existing frameworks, but wholly new ways of understanding human development, identity, cognition, consciousness and beyond.
Writing Across Forms
I work across multiple forms: blog entries, essays, academic-style research, books, and now Substack. My fiction and memoirs also engage with these themes—exploring narcissistic abuse, neurodiversity, and the alterities of human subjectivity.
The voice remains the same: direct, unflinching, uncompromising. I do not dilute my work for trends, markets, or entertainment. It speaks from lived experience and rigorous, interdisciplinary inquiry.
What Remains, What Continues
Here on Blogspot, my work will remain visible. It is the foundation—the archive, the trace of decades of persistence. But new writing, and the ongoing development of my research, will unfold on Substack. I am not abandoning this space. I am opening another door.
For those who read here, nothing is lost. For those who want to follow the ongoing trajectory of the work, Substack is the channel. That is where the writing will gather, connect, and carry forward.
The link is here: https://cristinagherghel.substack.com.
I invite those who are interested in original neurodevelopmental and neuropsychologic research that bridges lived experience and rigorous inquiry to continue with me there.
Nota Bene: This research in human behavior is designed for those who seek intellectual rigor, structural clarity, and insights beyond the simplistic lens of pathology.
To learn more about my background and approach, please click here.
