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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
Underground, your history is that of "neglect and abuse" and that is what the focus needs to be on the most. Most individuals that struggle with NPD are doing everything they can to hide "shame". The reason they do "not" empathize is because it would mean they have to be in touch with their own personal pain, and that is WAY too hard for them because they never had someone early on that helped them whenever they struggled emotionally.
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This is right on the money for NPD defenses. I actually got a bit misty just reading someone else understand it as lucidly. The hopelessness and pain deflection in childhood is a rich vein to mine using a number of therapeutic approaches.