Narcissists are not like fine wine.

Critique of the excellent article by Suzanne Degges-White PhD. Entitled Lifetime Connections Narcissism.

With the subtitle What Happens when Narcissists Age.  This piece needs to be found and put to the top of the stack as must reading for anyone dealing with a senior with narcissistic personality disorder.

Contributing to the review by Tyler Woods point #3 in the section entitled How to Cope? 

Point 3 is a bit hollow. It reads, Don’t allow your negative feelings to consume you. Acknowledge them and let them pass through you.

Taking a chapter out of recovering from C-PTSD, complex post-traumatic stress disorder can be softened by labeling your feelings using the wheel of emotions.  Or dictating how you feel, in one word, to your phone and hitting thesaurus to give you synonyms for the emotion.

This process will move you from the amygdala, fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response. Up into the hippocampus, which stores all of the dreadful memories or warnings of what not to do in your future.  Traveling up your brain into the prefrontal cortex.  That quiet voice that allows you to be analytical and plan.   Changing how you feel to the positive allows you to grab a crumb of perspective on narcissistic gaslighting and scapegoating. Behaviors scapegoated you to question yourself, you are not the one with the disorder.

Kindly find a link to the article.https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/lifetime-connections/202404/what-does-research-say-about-older-adult-narcissists