Narcissistic Supply
Narcissists are not done after the discard because they need supply! People with narcissistic personality disorder rely on others to gain feelings of significance, admiration, and self-esteem. The feelings of significance, admiration, and self-esteem is considered supply. Putting it plainly, to acquire supply, the narcissist will use anyone including children. Multiple unnecessary and unexpected sequences of events may be plotted by narcissists for the purpose of obtaining supply. For example, a narcissist will engage in pity-seeking behaviors, attention-seeking actions, martyr-seeking mannerisms; along with many other negative behaviors that portray them as the good guy and their target as the harmful, dishonest, and phony person.
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More about Sherrie L. King, M.S, LPC, GC-C
Sherrie L. King is part of the Flourishing Hope Counseling team. She is an excellent clinician. Mrs. King is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Grief Counselor with over eight years of experience has transformed her life after enduring narcissistic abuse. Thriving in her recovery, she has helped countless children, adolescents, spouses, and adult children of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) parents.
Sherrie understands the heightened levels of distress, grief, PTSD, family estrangement, and abandonment these individuals face due to the complexities of the NPD family dynamic. She is dedicated to healing the mother wound and, as a post-trauma thriver with 15 years of no contact, she knows firsthand the importance of being heard and understood on the healing journey.