Jessica Anne Pressler Blog

08/19/2026

08/19/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/why-you-cant-just-get-over-a-narcissist-understanding-the-trauma-bond-the-withdrawal-and-the-long-road-out-of-the-fog

One of the questions I hear most often is some version of this: "Why can't I get over him? Why do I keep going back? I still miss them even when I know they were abusive, I still want to hear from them, what’s wrong with me?"

08/11/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/the-importance-of-friendship

By Jessica Anne Pressler LCSW I have spent nearly forty years sitting with people in some of the most tender moments of their lives — in my therapy practice, in my support groups, and at bedsides as a hospice social worker. And if there is one thing I have learned, watching people survive heartbre...

08/04/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/when-the-narcissist-is-your-child

By Jessica Anne Pressler, LCSW There's a particular kind of silence that falls over a parent when they finally admit it to themselves: my child is a narcissist. Not “going through a phase.” Not “just self-focused like many children are.” Not “it's the drugs talking.” Something colder and...

07/28/2026

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In nearly four decades of clinical work, I've sat across from hundreds of people trying to make sense of a relationship that left them confused, depleted, and doubting their own reality. And almost every time, the confusion comes from the same place: they were looking for the loud narcissist. What t

07/28/2026

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by Jessica Anne Pressler LCSW We love to name the people who bother us. The brown-noser. The suck-up. The teacher's pet. The one at work who agrees with the boss a little too fast. We roll our eyes at them, or worse, we quietly write them off as weak, fake, or manipulative. But what if that person

07/28/2026

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07/20/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/am-i-talking-to-a-narcissista-psychotherapists-guide-to-healthy-vs-narcissistic-communication-in-love-family-friendship-and-work

I have four decades of clinical training. I've taught couples to communicate, helped people see how childhood shaped them, helped people find the words to say what they meant. I see other people's lives with clarity. And still, I was gaslit. I believed the lies, because he told them with a poker fa