For myself, I disagree. It has been helpful to me to try to understand the minds of narcissists – my dad was (likely) one and it has left its residue, as vonmoxie called it. That’s (still) a part of me at this point – I can’t cut it off – well, through dissociation maybe I could but I don’t want to. It’s healthier for me to try accept and understand myself, including the parts or aspects I introjected or whatever it is. And maybe that way I can really let it go at some point – just let it float away, not belonging to me anymore. Maybe, I don’t know.

What I do know is that hanging out in this forum, participating to the extent that my emotional energy flowed up over the top sometimes, has allowed me to get (more) in touch with my own “underground” and I feel more grounded in general than when I first started posting here.

So, thanks, NPD’ers, and I hope I’ll still be welcome to post here sometimes even if sometimes I’m a little, well, narcissistic in my own way?