Why You Can't Stop Reacting to a Parent with Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder
About this episode
The episode explores why individuals struggle to stop reacting emotionally to parents with narcissistic or borderline personality disorders.
You've told yourself that this time you won't let it get to you, and somehow you still leave the conversation feeling defeated and distraught, wondering why you can't just let things go. When you grow up with a narcissistic parent or a parent with unmanaged borderline personality disorder, you learn to brace for the mean comments, the cruelty, the digs that come out of nowhere. And you work hard to get to a place of radical acceptance- acknowledging who your parent is and what you're li...
People in this episode
Host: Torie Wiksell
Topics covered
- narcissistic personality disorder
- borderline personality disorder
- emotional reactions
- parent-child relationships
- mental health
- radical acceptance
Keywords
- narcissism
- borderline
- emotional distress
- parenting
- mental health
- acceptance
- self-improvement
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