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Default Apr 06, 2020 at 02:26 AM
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This very much sounds like NDP to me. Sorry. Did you ever look into it? Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers. It's quite something.
I read a couple of articles and found some things I identified with, but for the most part it didn't sound like my mother. My problem was that I was a parentified child. I had to take care of my mother emotionally while growing up. She never nurtured me at all. When I was sad or angry, she would just laugh at me. But all that was many years ago. I try to look at how things are now.

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Default Apr 06, 2020 at 01:14 PM
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Sometimes it's when a parent struggles with BPD too. Often a child with that kind of parent ends up in a parenting role too.
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Default Apr 06, 2020 at 08:38 PM
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I read a couple of articles and found some things I identified with, but for the most part it didn't sound like my mother. My problem was that I was a parentified child. I had to take care of my mother emotionally while growing up. She never nurtured me at all. When I was sad or angry, she would just laugh at me. But all that was many years ago. I try to look at how things are now.
That's an example of NPD and it sounds like it's still happening in much the same way.
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