And is there a cure :-)
2007-10-18 16:06:58 · 6 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Cure for the 'child'...
*wink*
2007-10-18 16:14:22 · update #1
me the child my mom the narcissist hehehe I think my Mom should have been a celebrity hehehe
To explain it simply some parents should not be parents. When you have children you put them before yourself you have to be completely selfless it is better to be a parent that is over giving then a parent that is not giving or lacking in love to their child!!!!
When a child is born they are not asked to be born the parent needs to do their job!!!
The child is the parent and sad to say the parent is the child very self-centered never matured or grown because of difficulties in life.............
We all know that a narcissist person is self-centered and only cares about them self in the end they get mental illness and make themselves sick I know this to be true.................
2007-10-19 04:13:56 · answer #1 · answered by Rita 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a child of neglect.
It is hard to imagine a narcisist staying a parent.
Odd are that such a child would be abandoned, and it is doubtful that a spouse would be there to raise them.
If the narcisist is the man then the child is either an orphan or the child of a single mother.
If the nacisist is the woman than either the child is probably aborted unless he/she is adopted and then you have a "Mommy Dearest" abuse case. (If you get a chance watch the movie.)
Typically narcisists do not want or have children.
I know one and she told me she only had them for her husband. Luckily this gives her an excuse to shop and play the grand dame. The children are wonderful, one, the eldest is very protective and guarded. The other is outgoing and friendly. The father is the nurturing type spending most of his off time with the girls and his wife. Luckily, his family supports him and when he needs a night out with the wife, he gets it. It is strange that I know so much about them but I do, more than I guess they wish I did at times.
Anyway, so much for the exception, the other answers are the rule: abortions, orphans, and single parent children, with the rare adopted abused child.
Oh, and as for a cure to narcissism. I believe the answer is acceptance of the problem and a conscious attempt to cope with it. Generally, most narcisists are harmless to others.
2007-10-19 08:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
S/he is a child who suffers much in the same way that children of really famous people often do. The child is deficient in love support and affirmation from that parent. Narcissists can't love other people, including their own children even though they may want to.
Hopefully that child has only 1 truly narcissistic parent and the other one is a normal and provides all that is necessary, including unconditional love. Otherwise, s/he will have to get it from friends, siblings and others and will probably end up in therapy, which could help them resolve the problem.
One survivor writes: "Some of you may have read Alice Miller's groundbreaking "The Drama of the Gifted Child" about issues common to children of narcissists. Reading it (at the insistence of my therapist) was the most devastating experience of my life (up until Castaneda's death and the departures of Florinda and Taisha), since I couldn't get through even a few pages without feeling overwhelmed with grief on recognizing that the parental "love" I experienced as a child had always been felt as being entirely conditional on my performance, achievements and "mirroring" the attention my narcissistic mother demanded of me. After years of unsatisfying relationships with other narcissists, therapy (which I had entered due to basic, inescapable feelings of emptiness) helped me realize that my attraction to these self-centered, overbearing, larger-than-life, and predominantly cold and manipulative types was due to looking to fill the "narcissistic void" generated by my upbringing. This awareness eventually made it possible for me to become attracted to, and enter into my first long-term relationship with a non-narcissistic partner, and to the kind of "healing" and emotional learning that is possible in a truly nurturing interpersonal relationship."
2007-10-18 23:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are we curing the child or the narcissist?
2007-10-18 23:12:45 · answer #4 · answered by Size 2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my mom is a narcissist so that's me. A narcissist is someone who is vain and egotistical and always looking at themself in the mirror.
2007-10-18 23:11:57 · answer #5 · answered by headcheese 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, because its not generally genetical
maybe proper environment and teaching.
2007-10-19 10:32:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋