Addicted to a Narcopath?

Understanding Peptide Addiction and Relationship Addiction

Addiction can be defined as a disease that involves complex interactions within brain circuits and external factors that cause destructive consequences and harm. People with addiction participate in compulsive behaviors regardless of the dangerous consequences. There are two main types of addiction at play in relationships with a person suffering from narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).

Peptide addiction has become a popular topic of conversation among the circles of healing communities that attempt to decipher the root causes of prolonged and exceptionally difficult recovery from emotional abuse at the hands of a narcopath. Understanding it can facilitate recovery and assist in self-realization. Biochemical changes take place in the brain and enhance the addiction to pain and attraction to abusers. When the partner of narcissistic abuse is betrayed and discarded, the obsession intensifies as memories overwhelm their brain. Betrayal keeps serotonin levels low which fuels this obsession and stimulates the production of dopamine which intensifies the compulsive desire. The discard is stressful which increases the production of norepinephrine, a stress hormone, which further complicates the out of control emotional thinking. Love and addictions are both activated in the…