Re: Narcissiscm is a destructive personality disorder. updated

I agree whole heatedly with your post - the cycle needs to end somewhere somehow. I have taken my own person measures to never have children. Both sides of my family are full of axis I and axis II disorders - schizophrenia, bi-polar, sociopathy, severe depression, NPD, BPD, alcoholism, anorexia, and drug addition. There is sexual, mental, emotional and physical abuse all over the place. I have decided to never have a child. I am now in my early 40's and feel a bit sad that I am not to have this experience. I however had an extremely dysfunctional family and while I was able to obtain a master's degree and get a decent job (the first person to go to college on my mom's side and one of a few on my father's) I have failed grandly at relationships. My friendships and relationships have been similarly dysfunctional. Even with increased awareness and a decade of therapy I have yet to be able to find and sustain a reasonably healthy relationship. I have been drawn to people with disorders and it has only further impacted my life. This is no kind of situation to bring a child into. It was a natural instinct when I was younger but over time became a very conscious one. Tweet