Mmm! My wife's mother suffered from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which we worked out quite a few years ago, but we have only just worked out that she suffers from Complex PTSD. She is expressing a lot of relief because it fits so well, and I am a bit angry with myself for not having worked this out earlier.
We are now coming through another complex trauma, legal this time, derived from her mother's NPD, and in the process have obtained access to some recordings of my wife's mother exploiting a lot of the abusive strategies, on tape. As part of the legal process we produced some transcripts, and it seems to me that the transcripts could be of great use to people suffering from complex PTSD, especially if annotated to show how they work, or how we think they work.
Maybe I would have to get the legalities checked first, and maybe a little redacting, but maybe it would be good to see some of the strategies of the narcisstic mother, live.
Just thinking
We are now coming through another complex trauma, legal this time, derived from her mother's NPD, and in the process have obtained access to some recordings of my wife's mother exploiting a lot of the abusive strategies, on tape. As part of the legal process we produced some transcripts, and it seems to me that the transcripts could be of great use to people suffering from complex PTSD, especially if annotated to show how they work, or how we think they work.
Maybe I would have to get the legalities checked first, and maybe a little redacting, but maybe it would be good to see some of the strategies of the narcisstic mother, live.
Just thinking