Thanks, and I am doing some research on it. I think the specific moments I mentioned earlier indicated that maybe my parents do have some level of narcissistic injury, but from what I've read so far, my parents don't seem to be full-on narcissists. In fact, I'd say they're just as damaged as I am.

My dad was the youngest of four children and was essentially raised as an only child as his siblings were either in college or living on their own. He was an alcoholic and a smoker, but he quit drinking before I was born and he smoked occasionally but eventually quit that as well. My mom was the middle child of three children and she was raised in an abusive household. (She and her siblings were beaten and mistreated by their father.) Her father would eventually leave her mother and remarry, and she found out at one point that he had an entirely new family in another country. Her eldest brother became a an alcoholic and a drug addict. (He got better later on.)

As far as I'm concerned, I was never satisfied with therapy because I would sit there and talk to someone about my problems, but they wouldn't give me much sound or helpful advice as to how to overcome it. I was on medication for depression for a while but that didn't help either. (After I'd take it for a while I'd start to feel like a zombie or, generally, on auto-pilot. One medicine I've taken gave me "head shocks" that would jolt my brain whenever I tried to sleep and, even though I've been off it for a few months, that still happens occasionally.) I feel like I don't want therapy as much as I want an "exorcism". lol