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    Narcissism-A Trauma Response

    Healing from narcissistic abuse has actually become a trend these days. Although this is a good thing, it’s important to understand that narcissism is actually a learned behavior as a result of childhood trauma. I have seen unhealthy narcissist attributes in the majority of people, including myself. This is because as children, the majority of us were traumatized. There are many adults walking around that don’t even know that their parent’s parenting style was traumatizing and had lasting negative impacts on their psyche. This is because this way of parenting (punishing until the child submits) is normal in our society. We had narcissist parents that were traumatized by their parents.…