Narcissism or Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

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Narcissism is where everyone else ends up in therapy not the perpetrator/narcissist

At the end of the day if you feel bad around them that’s enough of a sign for me. ✌🏼

I went here thinking my sister is a narcissist but now I’m listening and I think I might be one 🤦🏽‍♀️ I’m realizing My life is going so downhill because of this and I blame everything and everyone around me but myself. Thank you for this video I will work on this.

So I recently became more conscious of myself and the way I treat others. Thank god for the shroom therapy sessions. I'm just gonna come out and say I'm a narcissist. Most likely the covert one. I always have these big plans and grandiose fantasies about becoming famous with music. I realized I show little to no empathy to people around me. To rephrase that...I don't know how to put myself in someone's shoes and feel what they feel. It's always been hard for me. I've had a few relationships that never ended well nor lasted long. I was never able to provide my partner the love that they needed. In fact they end up telling me that I make them feel like shit. Most of the time I end up forgetting I'm in a relationship and think about only myself because I get depressed easily and I have this "main character" complex that deludes me. I remember always telling myself that the world was against me when it really wasn't. I was just seeing the world through childish lenses. I admit the more I think about it the more I realize I just wanted attention for being sad all the time. I wanted people to pity me and say "aww poor boy". What a fucking manipulative way to seek attention. And even when I got the attention I dismissed all the effort people put into helping me. It sucks to think people actually loved me but I was too deluded to see. And that hurt them because they saw that I was nonchalant about all their efforts. I kept blaming myself and saying I was just irreparable. But in actuality it was just a fucked up narcissi tic scheme to get more attention. Learning all this about myself made me disgusted. I cant help but feel self hatred but honestly I think I shouldn't because I don't want to fall into the loop of hating myself so that people could take pity on me. Lets not even get started about the lack of identity I have. I have problems with refining my sense of self. This is all so overwhelming. I literally cried my heart out and felt pain like never before when I realized all this. I mean depression is one thing but this pain was different. I could finally feel what everyone felt when I let them down emotionally. It made me feel fragile and demonic for not understanding human emotions. My ego completely dissolved for the first time in forever. Almost like a veil was lifted and I could see things from the other side. I might have been making decisions based on childlike behaviors all these years without realizing it and thinking "oh its just me as a person, this is what defines me". Goes to show why I'm also impulsive a lot of the time. And now that I finally realized all of this the worst part is that this disorder makes you the enemy of the public. All the comments here are all about how narcissists are jerks and how everyone has had a bad experience with them. Like damn is there really no place for me to get along with people without being judged? I mean I totally get it though. But I just wanna say that not all narcissists are ignorant of their behaviors. Some of us wake up and realize what we are and we wanna change. We're empty inside but we want to be able to feel things normally like you do. We crave normalcy in a world where normalcy is so diverse. I don't really know how to end this but I guess I'm just gonna say-I WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

She was my Psychology Professor in college and I love Psychology because of her

There is no reasoning with someone who has NPD. There’s no understanding. They are very unpredictable and emotionally unstable. Anything could set them off.

I was in a relationship for 15 years with a narcissist and it took me to the edges of addiction.. it took me down the roads of depression and on many paths of anxieties. Thankfully I was able to get away and now I want to try and help others who are in narcissistic relationships. For 15 years I thought it was me. Narcissists (in my opinion) are one of the most dangerous types of people to involve yourself with.

When dealing with narcissism, you should know that it’s not personal. “It isn’t personal” is one of those cliches used to cushion all kinds of bad actions taken by people who need an out for being immoral, but in this case it actually gets near the truth. Narcissists don’t know how to love or be a friend; they can’t afford to spare the energy to learn, because they’re always in a state of high emergency, cataloging potential threats and redoubling their defenses. When they claim to love you, it means nothing. They may even think they mean it, but they don’t understand the concept - they can’t feel it. They never attach to you or anyone else. Other people are paper cut-outs to the narcissist, like those cardboard figures of celebrities you pose next to for a selfie. Narcissist value their own children only as mirrors of themselves. When they destabilize you or attack you, it means nothing. They are stuck in an endless conversation with themselves, in which you are an inanimate object, to be assigned their own faults and used as a surrogate punching bag for their hatred of themselves. When they toss you out, it’s no more meaningful than a junkie tossing away a needle; when they try to reel you back in, it only means that they tired of the new drug and need a hit of the old. None of this is personal. They’re too terrified to have personal relationships, opting instead for extraction of admiration from a subservient partner whose range of action they strictly constrain. This is not personal. None of it. The narcissist does not know who you are - it doesn’t know how to know other people. Like the vampire or the chainsaw-wielding creature in the horror film, it’s from another world, bereft of the concept of human connection. Moreover, People wonder why they end up hurt, seriously hurt, and even killed for their own actions. Cheating is a choice and there’s simply a lot of ignorance in the process.... Thank you so much for helping me out Metaspyhub@gmail. com. Your advice and services helped me so much. You are a lifesaver !!! The information you gave me about my cheating partner when you gave me access to his phone was everything I needed to get,.. thank you very much..

1) lack of empathy 2) Grandiosity 3)Entitlement 4)Superficiality 5) Arrogance 6) Tendency to manipulate/ exploit other people 7) Chronic seeking of validiation outside of them. 8) Real tendency towards rage.

People with NPD will not admit there is anything wrong with them and therefore, never seek treatment.

"They need galas, they need parties" My narc ex had four birthday parties for herself in a week.

Someone with narcissistic personality disorder might: Upset other people often Struggle to keep relationships Put themself first Think they know the “right” way Think about themself most of the time and talk about themself a lot Crave attention and admiration Exaggerate their talents and achievements Believe they’re special Set unrealistic goals Have wide, fast mood swings Have a hard time taking others’ feelings seriously Strive to win, whatever it takes Fantasize about unlimited success, money, and power

Explaining how you can’t diagnose someone for being a jerk is brilliant

I didnt have an education cause my parents thought they knew more than everyone and wouldn't take us to public school, they were to busy to raise us but do not admit to any of it now. I missed out on my childhood, making friends, learning, schooling. All we had was the lds church and my siblings. I learned how to read at 7th grade, my parents always said I was dyslexic or had some kind of mental problem, but they never put me in school or showed me anything. I dropped out due to how I couldn't function in a social setting and getting in fights when I did finally get into school. Im 25 and I'm just now taking online classes for my highschool diploma and in almost done. I'm so happy I've made it this far and I'm finally healing from the past.

“You stand close enough to it, you’re gonna get sick”... this resonates. I just left my narc partner after a year of dancing around the idea. It finally made me sick. It’s only been 2 days. I hope this feeling goes away soon.

Damn i feel so shitty now. I was a narcissist I have the traits, I was a very quiet and isolated kid, I remember imagining about talking with a therapist and what I would say is "I know that I'm different but there's nothing wrong with me". I had good intentions but I unknowingly hurt a lot of people and only realizing it now. I seriously wanna change. I never wanted to be that guy. I don't wanna be that guy anymore. I'm going to seek therapy next month.

Narcissists rarely if ever seek help because, in their minds, there is nothing wrong with them.

I wonder how many narcissists are on here saying that somebody else is a narcissist.

My ex mother in law is a grandiose narc. I remember one time when she told me ..."If only every one was like me this world would be a different place." I had to take a second look at her. Because I couldn't believe what I was hearing. This was in the beginning at my marriage with her malignant narc son. It was such pure hell being in that family. Thank God I'm out!!