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If a child of a narcissistic parent is narcissistic can they recover or are they simply narcissistic also?
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∙ 12y ago
If the (adult) child has been properly diagnosed with the disorder NPD, therapy can be somewhat helpful, but most narcissists refuse therapy and won't cooperate with it, because the disorder makes them believe nothing can ever be wrong with them.
But there are actually 3 possible scenarios:
1. The adult child may be fully NPD, and therefore, not at all likely to accept the years of professional help it would require.
2. The adult child may just have a couple of NPD traits (fewer than the 5 required to be truly NPD) and might try to accept some help at some point.
3. The adult child may not have any NPD traits at all, but simply has maladaptive behavior patterns that they picked up from their NPD parent. (Sometimes people call that "fleas", and it's common.)
It's often said that if a person is troubled by the fact that they may be a narcissist, they're probably not a narcissist. That's because narcissists can't accept the possibility they're imperfect, or simply wouldn't care if it were true anyhow.
For more about fleas, do some Googling of the word "fleas" with the word "narcissist". That will bring up some stuff to read.
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