Tired of mean and nasty people in your life?  Feeling controlled and gaslit?  Has your overbearing partner convinced you that life should include subverting your will and self care?

NPD, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder can lie hidden beneath substance abuse, sexual addiction and an obsessive need to control others.  All healthy people have good self esteem and a strong ego, critical components of surviving and thriving in a chaotic world.  But adverse events of childhood can often distort a persons sense of self.  Ordinary self confidence can balloon into grandiosity and express as destructive narcissistic behavior.   The disordered personality is found more in males but is also found in females. Selfishness, arrogance, gaslighting, a lack of empathy and basic understanding of emotions are the hallmarks of this disorder, which has often been regarded as un-treatable. Sometimes difficult to spot when camouflaged by executive promotions and high political office, this personality disorder displays in alternating ways. The narcissist may at first fawn over or pay excessive compliments and attention to new acquaintances, then switch gradually to critical and controlling tactics that can often become emotionally and physically abusive.  Lost confidence in ourselves under this barrage of controlling behavior is an early frequent symptom of this terrible burden on relationships.