I did not know about NPD before reading this book. From the first page every single word and description matched exactly my experience. Some of the examples of stories of women who have been suffering from their mothers with NPD matched very closely my own experiences. It was amazing to see other people very different from me experiencing exactly identical situations and finally to start to understand how my own mom has been projecting her own insecurities on me and that it is not me the one with the issues. It was very refreshing to know that all of the things she has been criticizing me for all of my life, the constant put-downs disguised as jokes and the slight offenses when comparing me always unfavorably to other people had no basis and are not true. I feel lucky that I had these important realizations early in my life (I am in my early twenties) so that I can start working on them and hopefully not to pass them to my children (if I decide to have any later in life) the way my grandmother has passed them to my mom.Get more detail about Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers.
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