Please SHARE  this interview to spread awareness! Lots of people aren’t even aware I have spoken to Dr. Salerno three times now!

It's high time someone told the unmitigating truth about the narcissist and how they intentionally harm others.

It blows my mind that after all the years, in a toxic family, both parents deceased, my siblings stll to not realise what a sick situation we grew up in

The nightmare of raising a child with NPD and being blamed for it over the decades can destroy the soul of a descent parent. This research is so important! I am relieved! Thank you!

I’m so pleased to hear that they actually know what they are doing & they aren’t insecure, that’s just more gaslighting. He’d do hideous stuff & never miss a nights sleep, I’d be crying myself to sleep, he’d just turn over & he’d be asleep in minutes 🤣

Dr Salerno is a genius and from my experience THE top dog in this field....I resonate and agree with him on every single thing he said~~~~Words don't do him justice

They are legends in their own minds.

Conscious and deliberate. Woah

I was only girl and scapegoat role in cult family. No psychologist and sessions I had in later life, had any effect or supplied any help all my life. Only the podcasts on u tube helped me understand any of the trauma

I'm so glad to learn that they aren't actually insecure.
It's what I've always thought.
Which made me feel bad,  so I kept going back after being discarded

Tried warning my sister-in-law years ago but she was 35 and  in an infatuated state of mind thinking she had  found the "perfect person."
She is a college educated woman who hooked up with a man who quit school in the fifth grade and turned into a parasitic manipulator. Now, 20+ years later, I'm sure she  has become keenly aware and been exposed to his pathology arising in "all or most important areas of his life"...and knows by now what she has signed up for in him. The sad part is she is a good person who I believe deserved much better for herself.
But that was her choice, made for her own particular reasons at the time. She was a loving soul who  deserved better than the empty shell of a person she got in him. For him, she was the perfect victim.

I’ve been listening to narc podcasts for 3 years now.  The research-based info that Dr. Salerno brings to the subject is invaluable. It makes more sense to me now. Thank you very much! PS-I left my narc hubby 6 months ago after 28 years of marriage. Life is peaceful once again!!

They sure don’t problem solve, it’s maddening.

It took me 10 years to understand what happened to me and I had to discover it on my own from bearing down on the internet. And only in desperation to .  My therapist didn’t recognize it in him, nor of course did I not knowing about the fixed patterns that define narcissism. Had I  known  it is a personality disorder with a name, and recognized my own symptoms sooner it wouldn’t have had to be SUCH a long slow grief-filled and solitary crawl toward learning  how to give up clinging to the idea that there’s got to be SOME opening  into his awareness.

No matter how narcissism may be inconsistently diagnosed on the internet, without that reachable access I’d still be caught in the quicksand. So please keep letting us learn more as you do

Thank you Dr. Salerno for continually trying to create validation for those who went through literally mental gymnastics, a volatile abuse field of endless cycles of utter dysfunction and pervasive destruction. In any form and shape one could think of. Emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially you name it. I absolutely tried to do anything to not have to admit it. But as an ex-spouse married entirely unaware to one and into a whole family like this sharing children. It’s the worst when one has to accept how it’s no surprise to recognize not only traits but full blown PD’s in my own son. Not only his father. But my kiddo was called his dad’s copy from birth ( I was warned by family members themselves) and it’s true. He is now 21. Was always that same kid. Since very little, maybe around 18 months or so this became apparent. Never grew out of nothing only deeper and deeper into it.

You can't take anything that they say at face value.  Anything that comes out of their mouth might be a lie."

I agree i was the scapegoat of the family. Both parents are narcissistic. I did not turn into one thank God.  Because i was authentic an a truth teller my family hated me. Im so glad i went no contact. Thank u for sharing

Absolutely they have no remorse but truth is also what they are afraid of. That you will expose them.

They are plain selfish and committed crimes to their victims and they should be held accountable so they would think twice about doing what they do.

I am so thankful for this book. I am a parent with an adult child who is narcissistic.  I have beaten myself up over what I did wrong.  I have 2 other children who are fine...so I couldn't figure this out.  Everyone blames the parents.