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Originally Posted by here today
Sorry, I thought I remembered you writing that you met the criteria for NPD but only had some antisocial traits. Lacking the capacity to love, being born without it, sounds like what I understand to be a neurological deficit associated with psychopathy, not necessarily NPD.
Thanks for asking, I'm doing OK. As in, I think, and my T does to, that I'm now pretty capable of functioning as a "normal" authentic human being. But, wow, the pain and agony I had to go through to feel the feelings I had dissociated from. If psychologists can't comes up with a better way. . .still, it CAN be done, though if I had had to work and hadn't lucked into finding my current T it probably wouldn't have happened for me.
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Like another poster said here, all Psychopaths are Narcissists... So yes, I certainly meet the criteria for NPD, but I am not "just" a Narcissist. I have all the clinical features of psychopathy except the criminality as a lifestyle thing(though that being said I was in and out of trouble throughout my childhood, adolescence, and early adult years...)
What does dissociating from your feelings mean to you? What did that look like and how did said dissociation affect you? How did you work through that and learn to feel your feelings?
It sounds like you've made a lot of progress, that is commendable!