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178 - How a Seasoned Therapist Ended Up with a Narcissist (Part 2): Confronting Autism & Narcissistic Friendships w/ Kerry McAvoy, PhD

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Kerry McAvoy, PhD, a mental health clinician with over 20 years of counseling experience and a narcissistic abuse survivor. Now help men and women who have left an abusive relationship get on the road of healing and recovery. 

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0:00.0

Nobody gets more upset than a narcissist who is accused of something they absolutely did.

0:07.0

My name is Andrea and this is adult child.

0:10.0

Hey, hey, no. What's your holding on to, just let it all go.

0:22.8

What's making you slow now?

0:25.2

Let it let it all go.

0:26.7

Can you touch upon a little bit more about what your relationship was like with your mom growing up?

0:31.1

She just was absent, just really absent.

0:34.5

Basically or emotionally or both?

0:36.1

Both.

0:36.8

Both.

0:38.3

She worked.

0:39.3

My dad always insisted my mom have a job despite the fact that there are farmers.

0:42.3

So she worked the farm, was holding out a household, and then was a nurse, was nursing.

0:46.3

So she was gone a lot.

0:48.3

And when she was home, she was emotionally distant.

0:51.3

She was just wrapped up in the trauma and the drama going on with my dad

0:54.5

and the latest crisis with the farm, which was always tinkering on the edge of bankruptcy. I mean,

0:59.7

it was always just like this bigger crisis happening in our life. And so whenever I had a problem,

1:05.0

it was like, you know, I don't know how to fix that. I don't know what to say to you about. Like,

1:08.3

I'm struggling making friends. There's the autism showed up. I don't have any friends. I don't know what to say to you about that. Like I'm struggling making friends. There's the autism showed up.

1:11.0

I don't have any friends.

1:11.8

I don't have to make friends.

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