anxiety Archives - My Narcissistic Mother Growing Up in Fear and Psychoterror Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:09:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://mynarcissisticmother.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Logo-1-ohne-Schrift-favicon-32x32.png anxiety Archives - My Narcissistic Mother 32 32 How Feeling Guilty Can Be Related To A Narcissistic Parent https://mynarcissisticmother.com/how-feeling-guilty-can-be-related-to-a-narcissistic-parent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-feeling-guilty-can-be-related-to-a-narcissistic-parent https://mynarcissisticmother.com/how-feeling-guilty-can-be-related-to-a-narcissistic-parent/#respond Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:16:01 +0000 https://mynarcissisticmother.com/?p=936 Guilt can feel like proof that you’ve failed, even when you’ve only set a boundary or made your own decision. This article explores how controlling parents create that pattern and how children can separate guilt from responsibility.

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]]> https://mynarcissisticmother.com/how-feeling-guilty-can-be-related-to-a-narcissistic-parent/feed/ 0 936 What Is An Example Of Gaslighting By A Narcissistic Mother? https://mynarcissisticmother.com/example-of-gaslighting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=example-of-gaslighting https://mynarcissisticmother.com/example-of-gaslighting/#respond Sat, 02 Oct 2021 02:01:28 +0000 https://mynarcissisticmother.com/?p=742 Perhaps you’ve already come across the term. However, you still can’t think of a specific example of gaslighting, or you’ve never heard of it, wonder what it is and if you’re maybe even a victim of gaslighting? I know it can be a bit confusing because it’s pretty subtle and invisible to others. Still, I’ll […]

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]]> https://mynarcissisticmother.com/example-of-gaslighting/feed/ 0 742 Consequences of an Emotionally Abusive Mother on Adult Children https://mynarcissisticmother.com/consequences-of-an-emotionally-abusive-mother-with-npd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=consequences-of-an-emotionally-abusive-mother-with-npd https://mynarcissisticmother.com/consequences-of-an-emotionally-abusive-mother-with-npd/#respond Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:09:16 +0000 https://mynarcissisticmother.com/?p=717 Growing up with a toxic, controlling, and emotionally abusive mother can affect self-worth, guilt, relationships, boundaries, decision-making, and trust long into adulthood. This article explains how those patterns can continue and where recovery may begin.

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]]> https://mynarcissisticmother.com/consequences-of-an-emotionally-abusive-mother-with-npd/feed/ 0 717 Anxiety – Why We Learn It From Our Narcissistic Mother https://mynarcissisticmother.com/anxiety-why-we-learn-it-from-our-narcissistic-mother/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anxiety-why-we-learn-it-from-our-narcissistic-mother https://mynarcissisticmother.com/anxiety-why-we-learn-it-from-our-narcissistic-mother/#respond Sun, 12 Sep 2021 19:47:54 +0000 https://mynarcissisticmother.com/?p=541 “Are you angry with me?”, “Did I do something wrong?” or “What if I’m really not good enough?” – Questions like these are the result of anxiety that we have learned from our narcissistic mother. For me, it was my mother who was with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, so further along the text, I will speak […]

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