Very interesting shakespheare. That sounds like my father tbh. But my father would "not" do anything dishonest. He was always reading and not too many people could tell him something he didn't know. He rigged his whole sailboat so he could sail it alone, he would sit there and work it all out in his mind about how he could achieve different things that would be easier to control. I was his favorite, the only child that could sit and talk to him, but that came at a price. He would constantly stop me in mid sentence and correct my vocabulary, I know he meant well, but by his doing that I began to struggle to talk, to be able to get my thoughts into words. I slowly helped myself with that gradually by reading aloud "by myself" so I talk better, but I did struggle for a long time. What I always liked about my father is he was very interesting to talk to, I had to learn how to talk to him, most people fail at that, as he can get bored easily.

I did not have inability to remember key features of the trauma that developed into PTSD though. However, since I was not able to talk about it right away and held so long in my lawsuit, I began to disassociate and struggle with my executive brain functions. I stumbled across PC and it seemed to be the only thing that helped me work on that, but it was so hard.

While you think people suffering from PTSD get compassion, well, they don't, often they get treated badly actually.

"Persistent distorted blame of self or others for causing the traumatic event or for resulting consequences." quoted from what you posted

It is not always distorted, not the way one would think. It is not as though what someone did wrong to cause injury is not "real" or "truth". What I would have to say is "anger, sense of loss, frustration, grief, sense of threat" can be distorted into being so magnified that it is emotionally unmanagable. That is the "just" that most who suffer feel they can't seem to do that causes them to become very frustrated and even at times irritable or tired and depressed. The excutive part of the brain struggles to figure that out constantly and gets overworked. You can see this a lot when the PTSD is very active by how posters leave out words or repeat thought patterns. What I liked about PC is that I could review anything I posted to see how my executive part was working or "not so good". I have been a member since March of 2011 and had a lot of challenges IRL at the same time, it's been a lot of work and very time consuming to see how all of what I was experiencing that was "further" traumatizing me was affecting my executive abilities. I was seriously suicidal that year yet people at PC didn't know that, yet I was lucky to come across a vet here who explained to me how these suicidal waves would come, but also dissipate. That lasted for 6 or 7 months until it finally eased up.

Yes there is definitely a negative stigma that comes with NPD. However, some people who are NPD are more dangerous and abusive than others, for example, your father beat your mother. I think there is a spectrum and I think more has to be learned about it tbh.
Not all NPD individuals had a challenging childhood, some were spoiled rotten and the world just revolves around them, they were taught to think that way. A young adult drives up to a horse show in a mercedes, her horse is all spiffed up and tuned up for her to go in and win, she comes out, jumps of her mega expensive horse, hands it to the groom and is off. Yet, she would not really know how to ride her way out of a paper bag and if the horse fails, surely it is the horses fault. What she doesn't realize or even care to realize is that what she spends for that to happen, when all must bow down to her, is that after she exits a sigh of relief takes place and her money makes it possible for others to keep on "really learning to ride and be in the know".

I liked that information on INTJ personality, thanks for sharing. I had not heard of that one, very interesting.

Do you suffer from a lot of anxiety?

You may have a larger hypo campus to where you did not develop full blown PTSD too.
When you have PTSD, you don't just blow past it, it tends to nail you to the floor and beat you up quite a bit and as I mentioned, challenge the executive funtioning in your frontal lobe.

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