About the Author

Shahida Arabi is a summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University graduate school and is the author of two #1 Amazon Bestsellers, The Smart Girl's Guide to Self-Care, a #1 Bestseller in Women's Personal Growth and Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare, which was featured as a #1 Amazon bestseller for sixteen consecutive months after its release. It was also featured as a #1 Amazon bestseller in three different categories including Personality Disorders and Abuse. Her writing has been featured on Salon, The Huffington Post, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, MOGUL, Elephant Journal, The Meadows, Dollhouse Magazine, The West 4th Street Review, Thought Catalog, The Good Men Project, YourTango, and Harvard-trained psychologist Dr. Monica O'Neal's website. Her interests include psychology, sociology, education, gender studies and mental health advocacy. She studied English Literature and Psychology as an undergraduate student at NYU, where she graduated summa cum laude and was President of its National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter. Her viral blog entries, "Five Powerful Ways Abusive Narcissists Get Inside Your Head," and "20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths Use to Silence You" have been shared worldwide and her work has been endorsed and shared by numerous clinical psychologists, mental health practitioners, bestselling authors, and award-winning bloggers.