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How to heal NPD
Matthias:
Sorry guys. It's www.journeytowardhealing.org :oops:
Matthias
Anonymous:
Matthias, I don't get why you think our Voiceless community of people who have been hurt by narcissists would be interested in the narcissist's healing? Are you implying that we are all narcissists as well?
Karin.
Anonymous:
Yes there is a difference in being affected by narcissism and being a narcissist: for the narcissist in therapy or trying to heal that is a fundamental distinction, one you will need help with.
Narcissists or their relatives on the internet are now going to have to search doubly hard- other abusive people with personality disorders have taken over key phrases and definitions...who would have thought that a form of abuse would equal redefining a psychological condition..yet here we are.
Spam is a crime in the UK.
Soon pornographic email will be illegal worldwide.
One day hijacking information for personal gain will be illegal too.
Whoever you are- it doesn't really matter- just be kind, and if you need therapy- go find it.
Portia:
Healing NPD? I was shocked to read the following. It reminds me of the studies of ‘feral children’: those kids raised by animals who are unable to learn language beyond around 100 words because their communication learning synapses have never grown. They’re physically unable to learn.
‘Why is it always about you?’ – Hotchkiss - Chapter one on shamelessness:
“For some children, this experience {of shame}, repeated over and over in the course of socialisation, is so crushing that they never quite get over it, and they spend their lives avoiding anything that makes them feel ashamed. Recent research in neurobiology* has shown that the developing brain is not yet ready to process the intense experience of shame at an early age when socialisation begins and that the lack of an emotionally attuned parent at this crucial time can actually stunt – for life – the growth of the pathways for regulating such profoundly unpleasant emotions.”
* Schore A N (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self.
Healing NPD = brain transplant? Anyone have an update on this research?
(PS. I've glanced at that site above. In The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing (why is it always 12? why not 9 or 13?) number 11 says: "Since love is eternal, death need not be viewed as fearful". Anyone know what this means from a secular point of view? Is it implying that death is a state, rather than a simple event? Is it just sloppy thinking?)
Anonymous:
I've talked to several psychologists about healing NPD, the therapist would try to find out what the NPD means to the narcissist and what behaviours are problematic to people around them. Often it would mean separating other issues too, depression, violence ( often verbal ) or substance abuse.
It would be a long painful process for the narcissist, and the therapist probably!
Anti-depressants apparently help a lot because they 'cushion' the pain of life and therapy.
There's an interesting article from the Psychiatric Times http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p960235.html
about the reduction in narcissistic behaviours in some patients following therapy.
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