Insight about living with and loving a BPD person — whether it is a romantic partner, a family member, or a child we as a co-parent bear direct personal responsibility for placing at risk of exposure to caustic behavior.
When Step-Parents strive to alienate children from biological parents everyone loses
When a clingy, co-dependent, and or socially anxious and insecure Step-Parent strives to alienate children and grandchildren from biological parents it’s Narcissistic Abuse, plain and simple. Do not spend another moment of time wondering if Parental Alienation by a Step-Parent is inappropriate for them to strive to create as an outcome between any age child …
Deception by Doublespeak a Dark Triad tactic used to abuse Hospitality
Deception using Doublespeak to mislead other humans into taking verbal bait and self-harming is one of the most commonly deployed verbal abuse tactics on the planet. Whether someone is two years old lying about whether or not they took cookies out of a jar and ate them without permission or they are 70 plus years-old …
When Mother’s Day memories bring enormous stress
When Mother’s Day memories bring enormous stress, there is not much an affected person can do other than to ride out the season of greeting cards and commercials. People who are from toxic families often report loving their mother and noting every mini success in life she once had — but they are quick to …
Seasonal or Holiday Family Drama got you down?
How to handle a Holiday Saboteur at Easter, Passover, or any Spring Break like a Narcissistic Abuse recovery pro.
What is a Baiter? Dr Phil knows
What is a Baiter? According to self-help guru Dr. Phil, a Baiter is a Provocateur who has no goodwill intention behind provocative behavior. A Baiter is a provocateur interested in harming and annoying targeted people. They are socially combative, untrustworthy socially, and typically leaving everyone with whom they socialize feeling emotionally drained and physically exhausted …
Collapsed Narcissism and the Toxic Adult Child Mentality
What is Collapsed Narcissism? Collapsed Narcissists are big babies prone to behaving in ways that are rooted in nurtured covetous passive aggression. Expect all Collapsed Narcissists to be socially competitive with other human beings for social resources, material goods, things like money, and for attention. But not normal competitors — they tend to loathe and …
Enough is never enough for a Glutton
Enough is never enough for a Glutton; and Cluster B people in general and by definition are socially, (typically) fiscally, and emotionally gluttonous. Here is what you need to know and understand in order to deal with that type of person or peer group in the 21st century and polite society. First of all, if …
The difference between Pathological Envy and Jealousy
The difference between Pathological Envy and Jealousy is… the only subject of note in this article.
Surviving Parental Alienation during special events, holidays, and birthdays
Surviving Parental Alienation during special events, holidays, and birthdays with grace, style, and comfort is indeed possible but it takes planning, effort, and a willingness to feel rather than to avoid intense self-reflection and experiencing complex emotion. If you have been placed into the parental discard pile by an alienated adult or mature age child …
Autism Spectrum unlikely to be Cluster B unless brain shows repressed EQ
Autism Spectrum, Gifted, and Talented people relax — you aren’t Cluster B unless your brain scan shows repressed empathy.
The enormous cost of being kind without setting healthy boundaries for Autistics, Empaths, and People Pleasers
The cost of being kind without setting healthy boundaries is grievous for Autistics, Empaths, and People Pleasers. One tends to become fiercely codependent without realizing it, leaving a wide-open opportunity for toxic people and Narcissistic Abuse purveyors to abuse goodwill and to mistreat hospitality. People on the Autism Spectrum are more than seven times as …
Narcissists’ morals and ethics are adaptive to their immediate needs
Narcissists’ morals and ethics are adaptive to their immediate needs. Make no mistake about it — it is NOT the same thing, exactly, as simple hypocrisy. It is pervasive gaslighting with the intent to commit profound and comprehensive social fraud. Pretending to have morals in line with the rest of society in public then behaving …
When alcohol ruins your family holiday or special event
When alcohol ruins your special event, it is seldom a happy memory creating circumstance. Actually, people getting drunk and abusing their friends, love interests, and family members at holiday parties is the most reported cause of Holiday PTSD for more than one nation’s worth of family units. People who drink can be a real menace. …
Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types
[A poem.] Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types. Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types who love nothing more than drilling holes in the bottom of social lifeboats. Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types who love nothing more than drilling holes in the bottom of social lifeboats …