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Why You Can’t Find Help Dealing with Narcissism
The reason there are few resources for this serious disorder
I sat in my marriage counselor’s office. In between snatching tissues and sniffling I muttered these words.
“Where can I find my people? Where are the resources to help my children and me?”
This seemed a reasonable question.
After all, there are Alcoholics Anonymous and Adult Children of Alcoholics and Gamblers Anonymous and so on.
I was feeling isolated and frustrated. Wondering where my people were. The others like me who had inadvertently stepped into a narcissistic sinkhole.
It’s important to point out there are several types of marriage counselors. Mine is a psychologist. I wish he had been the first counselor my husband and I had gone to see.
Our first counselor was a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who we saw for nearly a year. He was excellent and for several years after our marriage improved.
But then the distressing underbelly of our problems resurfaced.
Our second marriage counselor as a psychologist quickly…
