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Originally Posted by puzzle_bug1987
Maybe therapy can be helpful. It seems sometimes it breeds narcissistic behaviors and attitudes in some people. A "poor me" mentality. Then the client gets stuck in that enabled by the therapist (who gets paid for it). I rarely see it end well. Sadly.
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This has definitely been true in my (extraordinarily long) history with therapy. Finally out of it.
From everything I can tell about my situation, my sense of self or ability to develop one was damaged in childhood -- some just accidental medical trauma as well as family life. Life happens.
My last therapist said that I was "narcisssistically wounded and fragmented". So, without a healthy "skin" I was vulnerable to aspects of unhealthy narcissism in the therapists. Which probably everybody is going to have, maybe therapists more than normal because of the profession they are attracted to -- but saying "nobody's perfect" did nothing to help me build/grow a healthy "skin".
May be happening finally thanks in part to the therapy "surgery" but getting well from the last therapist's "infection" and "poison" has had a lot to do with support groups, in person as well as here on PC.