I cannot think of a time when my life has not been affected by a narcissist. That’s probably true for all of us, given that it’s a spectrum. Sometimes we date them or marry them, sometimes we work for them. I saw a psychologist every week for five years. I believe we’d be hard pressed to find a human being who isn’t suffering some kind of trauma. When it comes down to it, it’s about setting healthy boundaries for ourselves and understanding healthy vs. unhealthy responses. I don’t know that anyone is ever healed, but if we can recognize a healthy response from an unhealthy one, we have a shot at feeling some kind of inner peace and not falling into old patterns.