I am in complete no contact with both family and friends of family by choice. My mother is a narcissist with sociopathic tendencies. She has had an extremely strong influence on family. The only contact my mother has, is with her offspring. Her brother won't even talk to her for his own mental health.

My family and their friends are so enmeshed with one another, I had to let the whole bunch of them go free. If I tried it with just the PD people, the rest of the family would take on the role of flying monkey's (I hope you are familiar with that term) and let my abusers know everything I was doing and saying as well as some stuff I wasn't doing or saying (triangulating).

I would like to find a good place to grow outside the PTSD from Childhood Abuse facebook group. There is hardly any learning or growing going on there even with encouragement from me and the other admins...just a bunch of self-diagnosed PTSD sufferers who use the page to vent...as in dump their emotional garbage, reject offers of help or assistance, suck up the positive feedback and disappear until their next emotional trigger.

I'm ready to do some work on me now. It's kind of scary, out of my comfort zone scary.