But, wait, there's more to learn! Following is One Angry Daughter's recommended reading list to learn more about narcissistic personality disorder. These link to Amazon.com pages, where about a gagillion other books on the topic of narcissism await you. (While narcissists may have a lot to say, experts have way more to say about them!) "Will I [...]
This post was written for GWNI by One Angry Daughter, who explains narcissism, and her personal experiences with navigating it, on her blog. Labels May Come and Labels May Go, but the Toxic Behavior Remains the Same At the end of 2010, the Adult Children of Narcissists (ACON) support circles were abuzz with the news the [...]
This is the final post in a four-part series by One Angry Daughter, who shares her experience and resources for Adult Children of Narcissists on her blog, One Angry Daughter Still Striving for Acceptance My journey has come full circle when it comes to acceptance. In the beginning I was still a child seeking the [...]
This is the third post in a four-part series by One Angry Daughter, who shares her experience and resources for Adult Children of Narcissists on her blog, One Angry Daughter What's Next? Due to all the strong emotions attached to the NPD-inflicted loved one, the first instinct is to try to save the relationship. [...]
This is the second post in a four-part series by One Angry Daughter, who shares her experience and resources for Adult Children of Narcissists on her blog, One Angry Daughter A Diagnosis After I was done explaining the situation with my family and my mom in particular, the therapist declared that “less is more [...]
This is the first of a four-part series by One Angry Daughter, who shares her experience and resources for Adult Children of Narcissists on her blog, One Angry Daughter Turning Point I was weeks shy from the birth of my first child, when I found myself in the office of a therapist. On the eve [...]
If you grew up with alcoholic parents, addicts, or otherwise self-centered, child-like parents, you are already familiar with (if not enraged by) narcissism. Sometimes, the most infuriating fact of interacting with a narcissistic family member is, well, something that’s impossible to avoid: talking with them–having “conversation.” I can’t help put conversation in quotes because conversations with [...]
Conditional love is like the word LOVE with the word IF stuffed into it. Lifove. If you do this, I'll love you. Lifove feels bad. I guess I can sort of see how it makes sense in theory, sort of, but my head and heart know it as wrong in practice. The word conditional and [...]
nar cis sism/nar cis cism. n. 1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. 2. Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one’s own body or self, esp. as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development. (American Heritage College Dictionary.) Alcoholics, and all adicts, suffer from unhealthy narcissism. So do [...]
