You stabbed me a thousand times and then acted as if you were the one that was bleeding.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Welcome back to adult child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Shit shows what is going on.

If you're a new listener, please note that being called a shitow is the highest compliment that one could receive.

So, embrace it.

Today we are diving deep with Dr. Gregory Kushnick.

I heard him on the Mental Illness Happy Hour

podcast with Paul Goh Martin.

And we are diving deep into all things narcissism. So what is it? What causes it? Is it nature versus

nurture? How is it different from borderline? If it's possible for a narcissist to change its stripes and what to do if you realize that you are in a relationship with a narcissist.

People love talking about this shit. People are fascinated by by narcissists and narcissism.

So I in the Patreon sometimes before I have my interviews I will ask everyone if they have any questions specific to the guest or on the topic and you

know usually I'll get I don't know a handful of questions but when I when I posted in there does anyone have any

narcissism related questions like I kid you not there's like there was like

ten responses within five minutes. But first I want to thank my newest

Patreon member so Patreon is where I host three weekly Zoom support groups and

truly if you are not a part of this you're really

missing out you deserve to heal and grow and I'm telling you you're not going to be

able to do this on your own and this is not me being

self-serving I mean clearly a girl's got to eat a girl's got to feed her cap but this is a group of people who get you. I mean, do you feel like no one

understands you that you're the only one? I mean, I felt like that for years. And this is a group full of people who 100%

understand you, who have thought, felt, did, and said all the shit that you cringe over or that you think you're the only one doing

...