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Psychology.
Please Stop Telling People Your Ex Is A Narcissist.
Even if you’re a registered psychiatrist, stop diagnosing your ex.
“An ex is an ex and should stay back there in history.”
People who give up on adulting and resort to narcissism are hard work, so if they’re somehow intertwined in your life such as with children or work, then you’re free to talk it out with the people who value you.
Talking it out to get the message to others who also may be struggling with narcissism in their lives, one way or another, is also incredibly healing and each and every one of us has experiences worth sharing.
When you first discover you’ve come out of a relationship with a narcissist, it’s such a relief that you want to scream at the top of your lungs that your ex has narcissistic personality disorder.
However, by the time you figure it out, the narcissist has already been working hard on his or her smear campaign.
“A narcissist will always…
