It's interesting, because I do want to live a life where I do not feel a need to attack others. I've felt profoundly disrespected in real life a few times lately... and I've decided that the best course of action is to let it go, to refuse to retaliate.

But... I think that when someone is diagnosed as NPD, that the mental health community has a responsibility to check into that persons background and that they have a responsibility to make sure that the crimes committed against that person (when they were innocent children) are brought to light, and that the guilty parties are prosecuted. We (victims and the mental health community) do not have a responsibility to forgive those that commit crimes. We have responsibility to bring them to justice, so they don't do it again. But, I don't think any pressure should be put on the victims, either... They do have the right to just forgive, if that is what they really want. But, always remember, you were a victim, and someone else committed a crime.

Do you want to talk about the crimes that were perpetrated against you (the ones from childhood)? The ones committed against the innocent child that you were?