Hi Tea,
I totally get where you are coming from. I too am on the path of self-directed recovery. I have a childhood history of abuse and neglect and am finally safely out of a 40 year marriage to an actual psychopath, so the road ahead looks pretty rough. I have read everything I can get my hands on about childhood abuse/neglect, psychopathy, narcissistic personality disorder, and C-PTSD and the book I find most helpful is COMPLEX PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker. It not only goes into great depth about the origins and diagnosis of CPTSD, but actually lays out an in-depth self-help strategy that I'm already finding extremely helpful and encouraging. Hope this helps
I totally get where you are coming from. I too am on the path of self-directed recovery. I have a childhood history of abuse and neglect and am finally safely out of a 40 year marriage to an actual psychopath, so the road ahead looks pretty rough. I have read everything I can get my hands on about childhood abuse/neglect, psychopathy, narcissistic personality disorder, and C-PTSD and the book I find most helpful is COMPLEX PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker. It not only goes into great depth about the origins and diagnosis of CPTSD, but actually lays out an in-depth self-help strategy that I'm already finding extremely helpful and encouraging. Hope this helps