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Would this come under NPD or another general PD?

Covert Controllers / Manipulators as described in psychology today.

I have tolerated this behaviour from my step father for years and also on occasion from my mother. Its very hard breaking contact with my birth mother especially now as we are all in our senior years. Thankfully I am not living with them but its still happening on the infrequent times we meet.

I have tried ...

How to Spot if the woman I am meeting, is Dependent or is a Quiet borderline?
She has all the traits of dependence but lately I am seeing she seems to disappear emotionally for some minor incident or when she seems to fall in love with me. Is this appropriate for someone dependent or only occurs in people with Borderline?

Can anyone advise about this behaviour (below)

I hope the way I communicate it makes sense to what is happening. Here Goes:-

"when someone starts conversation in Skype say, you reply in skype, and the person replies to your reply in skype using whatsap, you go back to check conversation in skype to see what you replied to - it had been deleted just leaving your reply."

It feels like some psychological game going on. ...

do u not take the narcissistis bs personally? confident in your abilities? get along w pretty much everyone?

maybe you have a naricissistic parent?

i suspect my dad to be one, and my mom an enabler. very used to narcissists. in the work place too. i had a friend in a mental health facility who was diagnosed w npd and we got along fine (mostly because he was gay). i have several gay friends who ...

How do you deal with extremely argumentative family relatives. im 40 btw

got a family member who spilling lecturing me on their so called motivational talk about to work harder, and go up in company and i should go make more money and more money. when i told her that it isnt always aboout working hard but knowing the right people, social intetelligence, charisma, mental power, having the drive and being on your grind helps ...

I really hope someone can help me. Or atleast give me some advise.
This is the first time I am posting. Please bear with me.

My mom suffered from depression and commited suicide when I was only 9. My brother at the time was only 2. We were raised by my father. He never married again. My father did not do a good job of raising us and we ended up moving a lot and ...

Hi

I'm 53, male. I’ve been in the mental health system since 23. Initially diagnosed with schizophrenia, and only five years ago had that ruled out, and now diagnosed DID, amongst others. So yeah, in therapy.

I live with my mum. The relationship isn’t very good. Although we live together, we actually spend little time together. Mum would like me to spend more time with her, while I’m doing my best to maintain boundaries. She ...

Hi all.

I have an ex girlfriend. We dated 10 years ago and stayed friends afterwards. She got a new boyfriend. He moved in with her pretty quickly. After two years she tells me they argue a lot and things aren’t going well. She ends the relationship and moves to a different city. A few weeks later they are semi- back together again. After he realised she wasn’t coming back he kinda accepted the new ...

I recently discovered that the relationship I've been in for the last two years has actually been a hostage situation. Joking aside, i was with this woman (the narcissist) for two years and only recently discovered why everything about the relationship was so bizarre.
Anyway, I really need a place where I can ask a ton of questions regarding the narcissistic personality, why it is that they do what they do, and how I can ...

Hey guys, this may be long.. I've been trying to figure this situation out.

There's this person who called herself my friend.. but has continually behaved in ways that would be more consistent with an enemy.. but kinda gaslights and spins things when I'd question certain behaviors and actions. I'm really thinking she's NPD and when she realized she'd get no financial gain from me... her envious narcness took over. I'll give some examples..

Early ...