#Just got diagnosed with NPD and need help/advice on how to move forward.

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nimble dune
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When I was 6 I got diagnosed with ADHD and then a year later with autism which is what I’ve been treated with my whole life. I’ve been on countless medications, personal assistants, schools and tons of different “help” but none of it helped and I just got worse thru out the years. I went to tons of psychologists and last year I got a new one yet again. This one had a different approach.

He said that maybe the reason none of the autism treatments were working was because I didn’t have autism but something else. So I went thru a reevaluation and now two weeks ago I got diagnosed with NPD.

This is a very severe disorder and I don’t know how to move forward, I feel offended and confused. But apparently it is a Crystal clear and absolute final diagnosis. Apparently my behaviour got dismissed as ADHD and autism thru out the years.

I have mandatory weekly therapy sessions which I highly dislike. My parents aren’t very present in my life and I have no friends or connections but I wanted some advice or guidance on how to deal with this disorder and how to not become/be the way this disorder is explained and portrayed in the public eye.

My dms are open for any advice, input or questions.

deft sierra
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attend those therapy sessions

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work on yourself

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there’s nothing inherently wrong with you because you’ve been labelled dysfunctional or atypical relative to the standards of society that’s just a mass subjectivity masquerading as something meaningful

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it’s not a flaw but a thing that constitutes yourself

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but yeah the best thing to do would just be not to avoid it

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face it head on and work on it

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figure out what you want from yourself

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and figure out how you’re gonna do that

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id discuss that with your therapist if that’s something you’re comfortable doing

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but if it’s not that’s okay too