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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
. . .As far as knowing I'm disordered, yes I'm aware... I just seem to be literally incapable of giving a ****. So I'm an asshole? Okay. Let's move on!
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Puh-leeze. I held my co-dependent “tongue” as much as I could when others insulted you, since it was your business to defend yourself, which I knew you to be capable of doing. And I can understand if you want to short-circuit any other people who want to toss insults. But, for me, I like you, "not caring" and all, and so I don’t like anybody – even you -- saying insulting words about you. Yes, we move on!
And to the OP – in my experience, you could definitely be in worse company than that in this forum. For instance,
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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
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Yet the "fear" I associate with possibly being a narcissist is worry that I have or will hurt someone somehow, and not realize it. . .
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For me, although I don’t have classic NPD, my therapist said that I had been "narcissistically wounded and fragmented". My ability to consciously feel hurt (in my normal state) had been numbed out or dissociated because of events in my childhood, so I couldn’t really empathize and just stay calm. When I felt that I had hurt somebody I would feel overwhelming guilt, then shame, which could collapse into a pit of self-loathing. Mostly I was hypervigilant about NOT hurting anybody and co-dependent.
I got the feelings of hurt back through excruciating trauma therapy – the dissociated feelings became conscious, but I couldn’t make it happen and when they did come, I had to allow myself to consciously feel the feelings that had been too much for me when I was a child. So, as I wrote a while back, it can be done but it seems to me there needs to be a better way. It’s excruciating and the therapy itself can be destabilizing.
All the people criticizing us aren't like us, or maybe they have their own narcissistic tendencies numbed out or they are in denial or something. At any rate, they apparently don't or can't have empathy with us. So there!