Complete Personality Change?!?
Complete Personality Change?!?
Did your qualifiers change their personalities pretty drastically? As my AM gets more and more mired in her condition, I can't believe how much her views on so many things have changed. Things that would have horrified her in the past, do not seem to phase her at all anymore. She is loud and outspoken when she used to be a pretty reserved person. Sometimes I feel like I don't even know her and that is even when she is relatively sober.
What have your experiences been?
What have your experiences been?
DD--my mother was my first qualifier I was aware of...and it was exactly what you are talking about that helped me kind of take notice...I was already middle age and had been there 'for her' all my life.
Have other qualifiers in immediate family now...but glad that I worked through mom with a therapist as, without that, I wouldn't have made as much progress as I have...
Have other qualifiers in immediate family now...but glad that I worked through mom with a therapist as, without that, I wouldn't have made as much progress as I have...
For me it was my A sister. She's always been a very mean, manipulative, bitter person with NPD anyway, but when she became a drunk to-boot, it was just too much. Her entire personality changed due to the brain dying off (from both the alcohol and the repeated falls/concussions). The doctors told me she probably would never be the same when she came out of her coma. I was around her maybe twice after that and have made the decision to go No Contact. She is just a horrible person and I choose not to be around the toxicity.
ETA: I was secretly hoping when she woke up she'd have become a NICER person. When I realized she hadn't, I said BUH-BYE.
ETA: I was secretly hoping when she woke up she'd have become a NICER person. When I realized she hadn't, I said BUH-BYE.
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Totally! If my husband acted the same whether he was drinking or not, I wouldn't have a problem with his problem drinking. I think that's why Jekyll and Hyde are referenced so frequently when talking about addicted loved ones.
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