Waking Up to Narcissism

Waking up to betrayal, gaslighting, or emotional immaturity rarely comes with a casserole on the porch or a meal train. When someone has a baby or a surgery, people can see the event and show up with dinner. When you discover a double life, or realize you have no opinions as an adult because someone spent years telling you how to think and feel, the loss is usually invisible ...

Narcissistic personality disorder vs. emotional immaturity: what separates the two, and why that difference shapes how you heal. On Greg and Amy Langford's podcast Undressing Intimacy, Tony draws on psychologist Elinor Greenberg's view of narcissistic personality disorder as a set of coping strategies from childhood. From there, he walks through ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic ...