Narcissistic Abuse Recovery.

Embrace Your Inner Narcissist.

Let your empathy trait take a back seat to narcissism.

Write Mind Matters
4 min readMar 22, 2024

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Let us not forget that narcissism, like empathy, is a superpower. However, in the face of recovery from narcissistic abuse, you can no longer let empathy drive all your decisions.

In fact, many children today are protecting themselves from over and under-parenting by developing narcissistic habits.

The reason you come out of a narcissistic relationship feeling like a narcissist, if you’re not high in the spectrum in the first place, is that you will pick up on traits of narcissism from being around one.

Also, to truly break free from the trauma bond, you need to stop giving away your empathy, it has to be reserved for you.

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is characterized by the consistent presentation of at least five of nine patterns of behaviour. So, how would that look in recovery from narcissistic abuse?

1. Have a grandiose…

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