I am the only child of a narcissistic mother who is herself an only child. She has now been living with me for 17 months.This has now pushed me into having a therapist, a psychiatrist,antidepressants and antianxiety meds to be able to exist day to day with her.Would love to hear from other female only children of a narcissistic mother and hear how you are coping with your mother.
I can't express how important breaks, many, many breaks, really are to care givers. Especially for those taking care of the...less than joyful...elderly.
I'm too d**n worn out...and that tells you something...to get into the millions of reasons why, after having dealt with my mom for so long and now dealing with her death, my brain has been reduced to a confusing puddle of mental soup.
What happens, in a nutshell, Tex, when you deal with a narcissist for many years, and God help you, if you become their care givers for many more, your spirit gets poisoned. Slowly but surely.
I feel like I'm in the middle of a detox session trying to get rid of it and over it all.
A narcissist can, and will, destroy you. It's as simple as that. You constantly have to be on guard against them and their head games and other assorted manipulations. After so many years of dealing with that kind of personality bleeding my dry, then all the stresses of being my mom's care taker bleeding me on all levels, I'm a mental train wreck.
I didn't get this way overnight. I won't recover overnight either. One day at a time. That's become my mantra.