Recovering

Recovering

If narcissism causes addiction, what happens when recovery causes narcissism?

What happens when the thing that saved us becomes the thing we need saving from

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Holly Whitaker
Aug 03, 2025
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I started this post a while ago (in February!) and put it aside because I wanted to get some thoughts from my dear friend, addiction psychiatrist Carl Erik Fisher (author The Urge: Our History of Addiction, writer o…

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