Domestic Violence Awareness

A new brain-imaging study shows that active cocaine abusers can suppress drug craving, suggesting new ways to help them quit and avoid relapse. New treatments aimed at strengthening inhibitory control could help prevent relapse.  

A POLICE staff sergeant who assaulted his Indonesian maid over a period of four months had his jail term doubled to two years on Tuesday. In the first maid-abuse case to go before the three-judge Court of Appeal, thejail term handed down to Lawrence Lim Hwang Ngin, 37, underscored the Singapore courts' firm stance against those who abuse their domestic maids.  

Recognizing the ProblemRecognizing the fact that you have been living with a partner who is affected by NPD, is surely the first step of dealing with the issue.However, before someone might be classified as being narcissistic, it is important to keep in mind that, like every psychological disorder, narcissistic personality disorder too comes in various degrees. Going to the extreme, we might argue that each of us has somewhere a narcissist in...  

Barack Obama's narcissism has frequently been commented upon, but Glenn Reynolds makes an interesting and potentially important observation: I think Obama's "charisma" was based on voter narcissism -- people excited not just about electing a black President, but about themselves, voting for a black President. Now that's over, and they're stuck just with him, and emptied of their own narcissism there's not much there to fill out the suit...  

so says a former palin staffer. i rarely give credence to these accusations. it is so easy to call anyone you don't like a sociopath or psychopath or narcissist or whatever term seems to embody unrestrained evil to the general populace at any given time. this particular accusation seemed less accusatory to me, though. as reported by the anchorage daily news, when ex palin aide paul bitney was asked whether he believed sarah palin was sane...  

New Zealand team manager Dave Currie has assured he has no ill feelings towards Jesse Ryder after the temperamental batsman verbally abused at him in the dressing room after smashing a chair during a Champions Trophy match against Sri Lanka in September.  

Innocent people have been branded as child abusers after malware infected their PCs, an AP investigation has discovered. Technically sophisticated abusers sometimes store images of child abuse on PCs infected by Trojans that grant them illicit access to compromised machines. The plight of those framed in this way is all the worse because paedophiles commonly use supposed [...] Related posts:Even the mother behind “Meghan’s Law” says that...  

I thought I would share the letter my main abuser wrote to me while he was in prison when I was 15. I have had this letter sitting away for 7 years and whenever I come across it I get so mad because of his pathetic lies and bullsh*t. It is rather long so if you don't want to sit here reading his...  

by Kathy Krajco The fact that you want to help a narcissist — to “save” him or her, as it were — is a manifestation of your good nature and of your true love for the fictional character you thought was a real person. It takes time for the simple truth that narcissists are predators to sink [...]  

I gotta agree with police on this…I mean, if she is able to knock the living shit out of a toddler in front of strangers, I’d hate to think of what she is doing to that kid behind closed doors. var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.dreamindemon.com/2009/11/24/police-looking-for-child-abuser-caught-on-tape/',size:'large'}  

by Kathy Krajco And so, what do you do if you cannot forgive your abuser? What SHOULD you do? Which party is the obstacle to reconciliation here? You or your abuser? What should you do? Just accept it. It's a fact. Let it be. You cannot really change it: all you can do is delude yourself about it. You can pretend to have "forgiven" your abuser all you want, but there is nonetheless, a state of war between you. It exists whether you admit it or...  

Here is the basic anatomy of a personality-disordered person. They are never the problem; you are! If you dispute THEIR logic and reason because you know what they say lacks rationale, then the PD processes your reaction as retaliatory. Their epicenter has been compromised and you are now considered their “tormentor.” Mutual benefits such as, diplomacy, compromise, apologizing when wrong, etc., are non-existant in their minds. You have...  

by Kathy Krajco Narcissists really know only a few tricks. One happens to be projection, and they practice it so much that it becomes second nature. Hence narcissists love to commit character assassination by calling the party they're tearing down (to look better than) 'the narcissist.' A joke. Where is the character assassination coming from? Where is the inflated measure of self importance (grandiosity) coming from? Where is the envy coming...  

by Kathy Krajco Nearly everyone has seen something like the following little scene… A three-or-four-year-old is with his mother in the grocery store. He points at a candy bar, looking at his mother with the brightest, cutest, most engaging little face you ever saw. Mother is busy and hardly glancing at him as she reads her grocery [...]  

by Sandra Brown, MA We've talked about 'Hate' and it's impassioned connection to relapse. Anything we feel that embroiled about we are likely to act on. Your relapse prevention has to be more detailed than mere feelings such as using 'hatred' as a way of distancing yourself from the pathological. This usually doesn't work because hate is passionate and increases your sense of attachment to him. Instead, let's consider emotional detachment and...