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  1. You are amazing! Thank you!!

  2. My mother is a bonafied narc.. she said I had only been bad to her for 20 years and she had only been nice. She never remembered what I studied, ever. She is a haughty Jehovahs witness too unbrearable arrogant dicotomic minded thinking that suits her narc brain.

  3. Can you have a narcissist with an inferiority complex? Or narcisism that is born by inferiority complex?

  4. Good info but hard to listen to since there is something wrong with the sound.

  5. Gone no contact with my narc mother for 2 months and feeling much stronger already. A big thank you to Sam V, Richard Gannon, Ollie M, Narcissist Survivor and all others who comment on this complex subject. Let us all keep strong together Amen x

  6. Ina

    the question with a narcistic mother is: will I ever have back my stolen life? A narcistic mother will destroy every aspect of a their child and adult 's life.

  7. Terrible sound quality

  8. your detailed and careful breakdown of the behavior and traits is very clear and helps put context to memories. Thank you. My mother is a textbook case of NPD and I fully cut contact within 6mo after I moved out of the home.

  9. my mom interfered with friends and any man that was interested in me. Taking my time constant calling or texting unusual hours. if he was a mean man she liked him. And her help was bigger cost verbally and psychological abuses. Very harmful. my brothers and sister don't talk to me or know me anymore. she isolated me from them from the start then it became well placed.
    love can she ever feel this deeply as healthy parents do one day or im I putting false hope in as i was tot to believe? ?

  10. run…and don't look back

  11. narcissists are all around me and they are all women in my family,at work,friends.i can't believe that the majority are men

  12. Thankyou for uploading, that was very useful

  13. Every time I watch his videos and read excerpts from him, I think: Although I know technically Vaknin has malignant NPD, it's not THAT bad (I don't care what he says:) since really how many NPD's can admit to all this? Thanks dude, this is so helpful and kudos to you.

  14. female sociopaths are damaging.  the daughters of a sociopathic mother are the same.

  15. Hi! I fell really embarrassed for writting this but I do really need help. I'm already 23; both me and my sister are feeling trapped. My mother seems to display the classic characteristics of a NPD. I grow up being abused physically and emotaionally by my parents. They were agressive, my father fortunately was a workaholic, but my mother spend all day in the house, she never leaves it. The last time was six years ago. She constantly beated us and atacked us verbally, but every time we actually ignored her or say something in return she would cry how much we hate here and how much she is misunderstood (now I don't even answer here). I'm jus tired. We are not allowed to leave house, we must spend all day with her. When I was younger she just let me go to school but I haved to come back after. There was very few time when we actually go to her sisters house, but this was along time ago. My mother spends all day saying how much she suffers, how she can't keep going and that we will find her body one day, that she is a slave, blah, blah, blah. She supposedly cannot leave house because she has actually alot of work (that wath she says to her sisters. She wakes up at 6 A.M and spends all day either working or criticizing us. I think she has a fantasy where she is cinderella. The way she says it, it's like we don't help. But it's like she is fighting against the world and even a small chores she has to do it on a perfectionist way (she wakes up at to to 6 a.m).
    I have agoraphobia but some month ago I began to leave house for at least one hour, trying to get used to the outside world, when my mother find out she shouted that we couldn´t leave, what if she gets sicks and need help, we need to be at her side (she has father in the house when we leaved, it was not like she was alone). We are not aparently allowed to. Some weeks ago she discovered that my sister was using a shirt she hasn´t given her authorization to use. It was a present from a parent but she is so irrational that she screamed the shirt was given to her and belonged to her, and it was for here to decided when my sister was gonna use it. Because who would give a present and say that? I'm very scared deep down, and frozen inside myself. I just feel empty. I have to kill and bury all my emoticons to keep going on just enviroment. I'm almost sure I'm Schizoid and my sister is olbviously also sick. Who won't be with a mother like that? I don't know how to find work, how to pay taxes, how to talk with other people…. Being like that how I'm I gonna leave house? They never teach me competences, I don't know nothing about the outside world 🙁 She says I must always stay with here and one time. when I find courage to ask her, if I could go to the university she sayed she was so tired and why nobody cared about here. To her, I'm just an extencion of herself. I cant keep going listening how she shouln't give birth to me or how much she wanted to abandon me. To every one at the telephone she just seems like a nice women. She fells angry every time someone is in pain because they are stealing here atention (not me, I can no longer fell anthing). What should I do? (Sorry for my english)

  16. Could I ask for some advice? My mother has become increasingly rude to me throughout the past year and a half. I am 18 years old, and a senior in hs. I have over a 4.0 gpa, I have a scholarship to my top uni, and am generally a pretty good kid. A year and a half ago I decided to better myself and become involved in body building. Its something I love and enjoy so much! But my mother, does not support it. She has made the following statements to me:
    I do not support you
    You can pay for yourself
    I won't pay for your food
    You look slutty
    Your hair looks awful (its very long, she keeps pestering me to cut it)
    I won't buy clothes your size, its your fault you don't fit into the clothes I buy for your sister
    I don't see the point in what you do
    You don't do anything productive
    Your grades aren't high enough
    She also gets very mad at my father when he diets. She tells him she does not want him to lose weight and literally will storm off about it. My dad used to be an avid gym goer and she HATED it.
    ANY idea on whats going on with her?? Please trust me when I say, I am a poster child daughter. I have impeccable grades, accepted to college, don't party or go out. Yet she tries to make me feel like I don't do anything and that I owe her everything. Thanks, Ryan

  17. I have come to an odd conclusion. Victims of NPD are the ones who diagnose the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

  18. I haven't had one romantic relationship that my mother hasn't tried to destroy. Oh wait there was one, and it was with another Narcissist. When I started to date, she became ruthless, stalking me and slapping me in public. Being a codependent, I thought this was just deep motherly love. But now I know it was a desire to keep my happiness at bay. And the competition was unbelievable! If I got something, she had to have it too, and better . These mothers, lie, triangulate your friends against you, criticize, and diminish you at every turn. She would tell me I'm an ungrateful child, then turn around and say I was a good child. Her opinion of me changes based solely upon her need to defend herself. If I say to her "You don't like me." She'll respond, "I love you, if you had siblings I would be telling them 'why can't you be like ,Teress?'

    Yet when I bring up her manipulation, she says " You have always been an ungrateful child. "

    These people are exhausting. And I really hit the narc jackpot because my NM claims to be a Christian! She cannot see that she's a Pharisee. She knows the Bible, but she lies, gossips, slanders, and manipulates , criticizes, backstabs, holds grudges, and NEVER says sorry. It's never her fault for hurting someone, its always their fault for being hurtable. What a miserable person she is. The best thing I ever did was to go no contact, now I can live!

  19. my mother is a Narcissist and I married a Narcissist. i'm exhausted…..

  20. I have no personal life. No friends. No job. And I'm fighting to be able to start college. Everything is put on me by my mother. I can't keep a job because of my mothers "needs" she makes my life a living hell if I don't do what she wants. She's threatened to have people arrested or even me arrested if I try to move out. Where would I go? She scared everyone away. She lies and makes up stories to keep people away. Everything I say is turned around to benefit her. She controls everything. She's pushed me over the edge more than once. I'm stuck here and it's killing me. My mother is literally crazy. Anyone that meets her can tell but they do nothing to help. And I have no say in what goes on. 

  21. I think narcissism is overexaggerated in men and downplayed in women. This is because clinical criteria are applied to men based on manifest behavior or interpretation of male behavior that equates confidence and power with narcissism. Women can wiggle away from this label by playing the victim card. And they all pretend victim status or weakness to evade accountability for manipulative games. I honestly believe that the prevalence of women in the field has served to strengthen this dynamic.

  22. I am told that I am kind and a good leader, from early school to work life they say I have that winning personality, but home it was a struggle…….. but yes the parents interfered in my personal happiness….I left home. the expert here has explained why they were so cruel to suitable dates, some really fine young gentlemen and not very nice to my former husband…… I am doing  their caregiving now it is a learning curve…..I work on what a healthy emotional life should be and can be. best wishes to you all.

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