What It’s Like to be the Daughter of a Sociopath

Understanding Today's Narcissist

Christine Hammond, MS, LMHC

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

“I hate him, with every fiber of my being, I hate him,” Marie said as she looked back on her day. “But while I hate him for this moment, I won’t let the hate linger because I’m not going to give him that power over me.” After years of silence, her bio dad sent a package of weight loss tea to her work. It was his way of saying, “Happy Mother’s Day, I see you. I’m watching you. You need to lose weight.”

This was not the first package of its kind. Over the 30 years of no contact, he would periodically send Marie a newspaper clipping, an article, or random note all with the same weight loss message. Marie knew it wasn’t about her weight, it was his way of sparking insecurity, disapproval, and paranoia in her. He did this to get her back for the years of distance. The packages almost always followed shortly after her brother, who kept limited contact, would have a visit with him.

It took Marie years to unpack the damage his pathology did to her psyche. Sociopaths are gifted at installing bugs into a person’s hardware that can remain hidden for years which slow down the functioning of a person and can even destroy it if left unchecked. But this time, instead of sparking fear in Marie, she used his “gift” as a reminder of the now eradicated lies.

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1:47.4	And now here's your host, Christine Hammond. I can't remember what I was watching the other day, but I was watching some movie or
1:52.8	it might have even been a TV show in which they took a sociopath and they just made
1:59.2	very light of their abusive behaviors and I was floored for numerous
2:05.8	reasons because I work really hard to work with that population and help them to see the damage that
2:11.8	they inflict on others and I also work really hard with the victims to help them recover from the trauma.
2:18.5	And I don't think it does anybody any good to kind of glorify what happens or make light of
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