Being the child of a parent with a Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is extremely challenging. As an adult you may find it difficult to connect with your needs and desires or to align your behaviors with your goals and intentions.
As a child in a Narcissistic and BPD family system, you may have experienced:
Deferring to the parent as the main and most important person in the room
Not being allowed to have feelings or problems
Believing that there is something missing within you
Wondering what and where your “self” was
Feeling like an outsider in your own family
Developing people pleasing tendencies
Sabotaging yourself in order to please others