Do Narcissists Mellow with Age? (Studies)

I can see how the narcissist might become more covert with age. This could appear as "mellowing" but would be entirely superficial.

Dear Prof. Vaknin, I did survive, in large part thanks to your videos. I appreciate you very much. Thank you!

You’ve said it before Sam, that all personality disorders are basically the same thing, the disruption of a constellated self. Superficial behaviours and some traits may change to a small degree but the emptiness and schizoid core are lifelong sadly, just ask the borderline. Lastly the decrease in antagonism and antisocial behaviour could be (IMO) be to testosterone and other hormones peaking and shifting over the lifetime.

I'm always wondering how the narcissists are chosen for the studies... are they in prison, jail, in therapy? If narcissists don't participate much in therapy, how do academicians select narcissists for the studies?

Still Here Sam, thanks for the video, sad to hear narcissism won’t subside over time, I was hoping for the best, ha ha…

Cannot disagree. Witnessing all this every day. It seems that so called studies are used as a tool to boost views on social platforms for monetary gain rather than actually reflect the real social issues. Reason why Sam uses "self proclaimed specialists" or life coaches in any other way proves the point. Words are not used to teach anymore but rather to attract the general public to the channels. I personally had "an honor" to witness close relationships with both NPD and BPD in my lifetime and can say that majority of studies i faced don't reflect the essence of the disordered person him/herself but rather analyze a certain trait and sum up the results as a whole. This pretty much equals a 10% of analysis and presents the results as 100%. Unfortunately people do buy that simply because it just sounds good.

Thank you so much Dear Sam Vaknin❤

I'm delving rrright in with my coffee

I think you're just dismissing the science about narcissists eyebrows because of your own eyebrows. I'm joking by the way 😂

Apparently the one that used to be in my life did mellow with age. Because he had a stroke that changed his personality. He is the only narcissist I am aware of in my microcosm that was not cruel and nasty toward everyone during end-of-life-care. Everyone else got WORSE! I side-eye studies that say they get better.

Thank you 🙏

Thanks!

I'm addicted to your videos and books. Do you know of any studies on the effects of psychedelics on narcissists? MDMA has had good results with PTSD too. The person I think is a narcissist had a psychedelic experience that seamed to confront her with her impending old age. I've read in your book about accepting old age with humour makes people lose their narcissism

Predators might get “less aggressive” with age,.. and start employing Covert tactics.

Wow!

Thank you

I would love it if you covered reactive abuse. The dark empath thing seems to be a bigger problem of people trying to put themselves in boxes of feeling special. Like the sigmas, alphas, and other nonsense. Seems to be a strange byproduct of social media.

So on which age becomes the narcissist a real Narcissist, over 25? When the person is over 25, you can diagnose the person with NPD? And is the age different from gender?

😁. Joyful to watch. 🙏🎻🫶🏻

Hey Sam. I’ve been wondering if psychopathy could be a coping mechanism/ adaptation developed in response to intermittent reinforcement. This would also explain goal orientation. Do you know if this is possible/ there is any research about this?