What is the difference between healing NPD and learning to cope?
A Copping with the symptoms of NPD can range from medications to address depression, staying sober and learning skills such as anger mangement, financial responsiblity and conflict resolution, etc… Healing is facing the actual wound and going back to reclaim the part of you that was damaged by the early trauma. Healing is a process of learning the developmental skills that were denied you previously. Healing is very profound, life changing work. It can also be (almost always is) very emotional and painful. Mainstream psychology is slowly coming to admit that they do not have all of the answers for healing this level of wounds and there is a gradual turning toward some of the more holistic options. Some therapists can work with NPD and get them to a level of copping, but they simply lack the personal and professional insight to help you take your journey to the level of healing. In the beginning of your work with one therapist you may not fully understand the difference between learni
