Originally Posted by
Daybreak 
To TenNinetySix: Your mother sounds like a malignant narcissist to me. Mine is. Didn't drive me to drink, but surely drove me to other self-destructive behaviors. No contact is my way of dealing. You have my deepest sympathy.
To Daybreak... I was reading a psychology book this last week loaned to me by my therapist & in it a person whose behaviors fitted my mother's to a tee was, according to the author, a narcissist. I had never ever thought of my mother in that light before~~ I just generically termed her 'crazy'. And whatever role it played~~ I was incredibly self-destructive in pretty much every way possible; accident prone, reckless, addictive personality, a cutter, eating disorder, you name it. And my poor brother, also raised by her, is a paranoid schizophrenic. Go figure. What a mess. When I read an example of the mother's behavior in the book I thought... That's my mother. So THAT'S what's wrong with her!