I just posted this link in my journal but thought it might be helpful to share here as well. From reading this forum I have come to realise I may have a narcissistic mother. Anyway I found this article helpful:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/eating-mindfully/201804/how-survive-narcissistic-mother
Quote from: Blue Rose on April 02, 2021, 04:59:44 PM
I just posted this link in my journal but thought it might be helpful to share here as well. From reading this forum I have come to realise I may have a narcissistic mother. Anyway I found this article helpful:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/eating-mindfully/201804/how-survive-narcissistic-mother
It could be useful to know there are two kinds of narcissists. The covert sensitive narcissists. And the overt narcissist.
The covert ones are the hardest to detect. Nobody will ever believe you if you say she is a narcissist, cause she acts like mother theresa toward everyone.
Wow thanks for sharing that article. Finally they are taking us seriously, especiually a publication like that! Mine is a covert narcissistic sociopath. Try convincing ANYone in her (or mine for that matter's) circle/s and people will immediately wonder about you because mine too actually collected memorabilia about Mother Theresa and the 'virgin Mary" sort of crafting her persona out of these women. She had everyone in her life pretty solidly thinking she was a living saint. Yet the farthest thing from it in reality. Ugh and imagine being targeted and or scapegoated. Its a freaky experience I think that is called cognitive dissonance. It messes your head up for sure.
Even I bought it as a developing young child and adult. But since being a grown adult I am chocked at how much of a lie her entire life and personality really is, and was.