Narcissism, Avoidant Attachment Lynsey Tomkinson Narcissism, Avoidant Attachment Lynsey Tomkinson

How the 'Cry it Out' Method Creates a Foundation for Narcissism.

Think about it - you’re a helpless infant, you are unable to walk or talk. Your only means of verbal communication is to cry or gurgle or laugh. You are in your cot alone and feel afraid and vulnerable, so you being to cry. Your parent believes that you are trying to manipulate them into responding so they ignore you. Does this make a crying infant learn a lesson? Yes, but not the lesson you’re hoping they’ll learn. Instead they learn that they are alone in the world, they are helpless and unsupported.

You are sowing the seeds of narcissism without even knowing it.

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