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Originally Posted by DBTDiva
I came across this and I know the thread is a bit old but I wanted to recommend to the OP the book "Will I ever be good enough: healing for daughters of narcissistic mothers" by Karyn McBride PhD. A friend recommended it to me and I found it very helpful. I am pretty sure my mom has histrionic PD but she has a lot of narcissitic tendencies, she's VERY self focused. The problem with narcissistic parents is that they often see their children as extensions of themselves, so it's difficult if not impossible for them to understand you feel things that aren't the same as what they feel.
My boyfriend has diagnosed NPD and he has taught himself to feel empathy to an extent. He does feel bad when he hurts me, but he says that there's just a select few he cares about (me, his kids, his best friend and his sponser) and the rest of the world can go to hell for all he cares.
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The part I bolded is my mother to a T. And it ****s with my mind really, because I'm a Narcissist too... so in a ****ed up way I am an extension of her and that... I do not like that. It highly displeases me. And I am also displeased to have miscalculated to such a level as to not notice my mother's narcissism when I've recognized the other narcissists in my family so easily. I am frustrated, not at myself but with circumstance. My mother is a different kind of Narcissist than the others in my family so it's no wonder I didn't catch it before very recently.