The Con-Artist Narcissist and Your Addiction to Their JuJu — You are euphoric. Suddenly, life is amplified and bursting with color. The air smells sweeter. The sky is bluer. Birds follow you and sing enchanting melodies. You are lighter, brighter, floating above the grime and grit of everyday mortals. You have transcended it all and feel invincible, blissfully at peace…

The Structural Integrity of the Brain with NPD is Compromised — The cognitive dissonance in a relationship with an NPD partner is substantial, but perhaps it’s all in their head. Literally. In recent years, we can actually see narcissism in the brain shown in imaging tests like MRIs and CT scans. People who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder have structural abnormalities…

The Black Hole After Narcissistic Abuse — “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.” It’s been almost 2 years since the end of my marriage to a narcissistic psychopath. In the aftermath of his…

We are the sum total of our experiences and define ourselves by what we do and who we love. — My identity has been forged by a number of things. Life was not kind to me as a bi-racial female growing up in the Texas Panhandle in the 60’s and ’70s. Not only was the environment inhospitable to say the least, but my family was also plagued with mental illness…

Time to Get Your Priorities Straight and Stop Wasting Time on the People Who Can’t Love You — The Narcissist is that Person — It is all around us. But we do not dare look in its direction for fear it will take us, too. Death. It may come unexpectedly with a cough and a fever and a positive PCR. It may lurk in the hallway of our schools or workplace or local grocery…

What we must know to protect ourselves and stop the cycles of torture — The covert narcissist seems like a very nice person. They may appear to be charming, sweet, polite, compassionate, altruistic, helpful, and kind. Why would anyone doubt that wonderful package of benevolence? That’s the whole point. According to NPD researcher, Veronica Welles, “Covert narcissists are not compassionate, altruistic, trustworthy, kind, nor…

They usher in a new reality that forces a reckoning — The entanglement with a narcissist is more than it appears. It possesses power and danger unlike any other relationship with any other kind of person. The narcissist is a force of nature that rips through your geography, uprooting everything, turning it upside down, picking it up and spinning it around…

Two Hallmark Qualities that Define NPD: Don’t Be Duped! — Two hallmark qualities that all narcissists possess, regardless of which kind of narcissist they may be, are their propensity for deception and their complete surrender to delusional thinking. Without these two defining traits, they could not survive, nor could they keep the false version of themselves alive and thriving. These…

The Person with NPD Has a Damaged Brain that Prevents Them From Being a Real Human — This is a brain. And the one on the right is the brain of someone with NPD. Notice the empty circles in the mesotemporal lobes. That’s where emotional memory is stored, and people who suffer from Cluster B personality disorders have brains that just don’t work. Their pre-frontal cortex is…