Adult daughter of NPD mother researching NPD, healing.
In researching NPD, came across this site. Am exploring it, see if it might be useful to me, and if I can contribute anything useful as well.
Learned my mother is pathologically narcissistic way too late in my life. I am 59, and "starting over". Have been divorced 29 years. Swore would never remarry as long as I was not independent. Didn't realize the journey would take this long. But, as I said, if I'd known early in my therapy that my mother had this personality disorder and how that was affecting me, I might have recovered and healed a lot sooner. I learned of it after twenty years of therapy, from the last therapist I was seeing, who inadvertently met my mother and made the discovery. I stopped therapy about five years ago. AT 52, I ended up on social security disability. But since I feel better, certainly function better, I want to work, earn a living. But I have to start over, from square one. I have no profession to return to, never established one. I think it's because I couldn't find the real me. Anyway, at 59, I think I still have a chance to have a better life than I've had.
That is all for now.
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Do you have plans in motion yet on specific life changes? Or are you still in the idea stage of tossing things out there? Have you ever thought of going back to school? What kinds of jobs would you like to have, if you could have any you wanted?
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