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Good afternoon to you all members from Psychforums. I want to discuss a serious topic with you. It's about fake friends and how to determine whether the person is your actual friend, or just pretending. Now a lot of people, including me had fake friends in their lives. I understand that some of you were shocked or upset to find out that the person you had been close with, wasn't your real friend. You didn't ...

Good afternoon to you all members from Psychforums. I want to discuss a serious topic with you. It's about fake friends and how to determine whether the person is your actual friend, or just pretending. Now a lot of people, including me had fake friends in their lives. I understand that some of you were shocked or upset to find out that the person you had been close with, wasn't your real friend. You didn't ...

I dated a girl with NPD. I picked up on all the patterns, but didn't know it was NPD until recently.

It's been two years since I went no contact. Going off of some advice from here and other places, I decided to reach out via email. I crafted it well. Empathized with her, built her up, shifted blame away from her, and emphasized that I mostly just remember the good, not any of the ...

my mom is a narc. she's 60 years old now. never had any therapy. no friends or social life.
will she ever change? i try giving her some insight but the next day she's back to the person she was.

I like this for him because it gives the opportunity for people to ask questions that they normally don’t understand. I think we have a lot of information about dealing with NPD partners but not a lot about histrionic partners. I’ve been diagnosed for about 20 years now, I am in therapy and I have a great deal of insight on my disorder in the home it’s cause my partners. You have questions, ask away.

This is my mother who I am trying to figure out.

I believe she has a personality disorder of some type, but not sure what.

No way she would never go in for therapy.

Anyway, she is a perfectionist, and has some form of OCD. Not wash your hands 100 times a day or anything. Its sort of mild and I think probably learned behavior from her childhood or due to her perfectionism.

She also ...

I am schizoaffective and a ex drug addict. My sister saw a lot growing up that she shouldn’t have had to at one point I was diagnosed bpd but was removed from my diagnosis not sure if it’s cus it wasn’t accurate ever or wasn’t accurate anymore. Anyway my sister was diagnosed and has just had her baby taken away she’s ran away and intends on prostitution to maintain her lifestyle her friend is with ...

I would like to share my story about what has happened recently. I am puzzled. Any opinion or advice is welcome. This will be long and personal, so please skip my post if you don't feel like reading through.

I know a person who was diagnosed with BPD about a month ago during their hospitalisation at a psychiatric hospital. I met them when we were ten years old at a Minecraft camp. We shared a ...

Hello,

I'm 41 yrs old and I've had lots of issues with my mother since she was divorced from my father long time ago (now they're together) to the point that we're having fights every other day for 20 yrs now.
I read somewhere she might be narcissistic. I do not want to rant a lot but i just want to provide the right amount of info to help you see it with the right ...

I am a new Health and Wellbeing Coach and I am currently working with a client who is not able to let go of distractive behaviour. I know from personal experience that when we live with a certain behaviour for a long time then we are scared to let go because we know how to deal with the current behaviour even if it is not what we want. However, we do not know what it ...