When passive-aggressive people call themselves straight up. — I still giggle about when I heard my youngest children’s narcissistic grandmother call herself and her husband straight up. It’s funny partly because she was always speaking for everyone else, and because she had only recently been caught lying to lawyers; it was hilarious timing. You will never hear an…

Learning to understand differences from a child’s point of view. — I’ve never met a smart racist, nobody has, they're people with very narrow life experiences who haven’t had a broad enough education to make sensible, conscious decisions. I recently had a situation where my daughter’s bully became her friend once he met me and realized she wasn’t entirely white. …

How relationship culture in America looks from the outside. — Americans seem obsessed with relationships. America’s relationship obsession is conformist too like they’ve been brainwashed into believing that being in a relationship is the ultimate goal, but taking care of that relationship is not as important. People will place more value on the relationship than the person they are with…

“Abusers were abused”. — Around four years ago I was suffering from terrible emotional flashbacks and phoned a friend for some support. I was just out of an abusive relationship and when I tried to talk about it my friend suggested my abuser probably went through ten times the abuse I had been through…

A phrase that can justify narcissism. — You can not build strong and lasting relationships by going around not giving a damn what people think of you, there has to be a level of respect that says I do care about what you have to say and how I make you feel. “One of the sincerest forms…

The effects of stress and trauma on your kidneys and liver. — “ … in order to thrive we must receive the raw materials that we need to carry out our biological processes and we must stay away from influences that are harmful and which impair our machine from functioning normally.” — Stephen J. Genuis & colleagues. Psychological and emotional trauma is…

The benefit of haters. — About a month ago I got my first hate comment on my most viewed story. The day after my average views went from around 300 a day to over 1000, I’ve not hit that little benchmark since. I’d rather not say which story got hate, I write about mental illnesses…

New research reviews the concept of successful psychopathy. — “She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you? … Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough.” — Norman Bates & Marion Crane in Psycho. Psychopaths are appealing characters, they’re cool and collected, and often smart and successful. Understanding successful psychopathy would…